Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'
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Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

  • @uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    The Russian conservatives include plenty of gay people. Obviously hypocritical

    Example: Milonov

    They in general have no consistent ideology to speak of.

    For those who don’t know difference between totalitarism and authoritarism, this is the differece.

    Take anyone important - they’ve been with “democrats pushing for reform” in the last years of the USSR, then “democrats fighting the Communist beast” in Yeltsin’s early years, then “centrists trying to prevent the integrity of the federation” in his late years, then with Putin “law against terrorism”, then “law against neo-Nazis”, then “economic stability unlike the bad-bad 90s”, and so on. At some point they got lazy and the facades became less consistent and memorable.

    CORRECT

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      Well, it appears that some people not from Russia or its neighborhood are so unwilling to change their simple and wrong picture of what happens there, that they even care to downvote a comment simply pointing out that Putin, Shoigu, Patrushev, others have in various roles been near the top for all of the last 30 years, and then simply listing the main state “ideology” lines in Russia in the last 30 years, with no political position taken.

      Or maybe it’s my bad English in that comment, I meant “preserve the integrity”, of course =\

      • @uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•7 months ago

        Or maybe it’s my bad English in that comment

        Happens to me too.

        Anyway, if it was on mastodon, I would say you are downvoted because your comment contradicts their General Party Line, but mastodon instances can’t downvote, so no idea.