Police have raided the home of an LGBT activist in the city of Samara in Russia’s Volga region after opening a case into his involvement with an “extremist organisation”, human rights nonprofit OVD-Info reported on Wednesday. Artyom Fokin, the president of local LGBT group Irida, was detained and taken in for further questioning after police raided his home, OVD-Info added. Irida was designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian authorities in December 2022. Self-styled Russian “gay basher” Timur Bulatov, who has gained notoriety for his targeted denunciations of Russian queer and feminist activists in recent years, claimed that he had made the complaint about Fokin that had prompted the police action.