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MOSCOW, March 31, 2024 (AFP) – The owner of a popular gay bar in the Russian city of Orenburg has been arrested for “extremism”, rights groups said Sunday, as authorities crack down on the LGBTQ community. Police and local nationalists raided the Pose bar in Orenburg earlier this month during a drag show, later arresting its administrator and artistic director in the first criminal case of its kind. The bar’s owner was detained three days […]
MOSCOW, March 22, 2024 (AFP) – Russia’s financial watchdog said Friday it had added what it calls the “international LGBT movement” to its list of terrorists and extremists. The implication of its listing was not immediately clear. The Rosfinmonitoring watchdog has the power to freeze bank accounts of specific entities named on the list, but did not name any person or organisation on its website. Russia’s Supreme Court declared the movement as “extremist” last November, […]
