2024-03-26 18:51:39
Moscow: The LGBT movement in Russia has been added to the list of extremist and terrorist organizations. Russia’s government news agency RIA has given information about this. The move follows Russia’s Supreme Court ruling last November that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists. Currently, there is fear among members of the gay and transgender community after this new order that it could lead to arrest and prosecution. The list comes from an agency called RosfinMonitoring, which has more than 14,000 people and entities designated as extremists and terrorists. Has the power to freeze bank accounts. These include associates from Al Qaeda to American company Meta and late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russian news agency RIA said the new lists are about “the international LGBT movement and its structural units”.
Strict laws in Russia against LGBT community
Under President Putin, Russia has imposed strict restrictions on the identity and expression of the LGBT community. President Vladimir Putin views the LGBT movement as a form of decadent Western attitudes and strongly advocates family values. Russia has also passed laws prohibiting the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations. Besides, there is a ban on gender change in Putin’s country.
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The Kremlin has taken a conservative turn since launching its invasion of Ukraine two years ago, turning the conflict into a battleground against the West and its ideas. Russia had banned LGBT in 2022, calling it homosexual propaganda. Not only this, expanding the earlier law, it was also banned among minors. It effectively outlawed any representation of “non-traditional sexual relations” in public places and media. A Russian court on Wednesday ordered the pre-trial detention of two employees of a gay bar accused of organizing an “extremist organization”, the first such case since the Supreme Court ruling.