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.

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    Imagine the constant thinking about gay and transsexual specific activies that’s leads somebody to the point of voting to make them illegal.

    Regular people don’t constantly think about it, so they don’t actually care one way or the other.

    No wonder that it’s extremelly common to discover that the very people who keep raging about homosexuallity were closet homosexuals.

    Grow up, embrace whatever you trully are and move on: no need to punish others for your own sexual self-repressions.

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    The loftiest ruler is barely known among those below. Next comes a ruler people love and praise. After that, one they fear, And then one they despise.

    How sincere will the Russians remain for this man?

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    How I spent summer. Essay.

    In the morning we with my mom went to beach. There we’ve seen jellyfish(recognized as unwanted organization, included in the list of foreign agents).

    Then it rained(recognized as unwanted organization, included in the list of foreign agents). After rain came rainbow(which is element of extremist movement symbolics).

    Also mom showed me memorial in city center. Memorial is included in list of foreign agents, its activity in Russia is suspended by the court’s decision

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    To everyone cracking jokes about a gay uprising, it’s a lot simpler than any of that.

    They just want to exterminate the gays. Like literally. They want to find that portion of the population and destroy it, because they think it’s disgusting and evil.

    That’s it. Putin and the Russian conservatives are going after gays because it’s an easy win with their conservative base, and they can claim moral superiority. Also distracts from Ukraine.

    If you are gay in Russia… Its a very bad time to be gay in Russia.

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    Well well well. I thought Russia said the nazis were in Ukraine. Huh. Funny, that.

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        Sure it can. But that doesn’t mean it is.

        Oh I’m sure if you look hard enough you’ll find one or two nazis hiding anywhere, even if they don’t identy as nazi or even know what it means.

        But Russia, with its actions, have proven themselves to be an imperialist, nationalist, fascist piece of shit. And while both could be true, actions speak louder.

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          integrating the azov brigade into the national guard sounds like a bunch of Nazis are in the government to me.

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            Yeah, it’s a problem. A threatened country integrated a fascist militia into its army. Yes, and that’s bad.

            But the country as a whole does not like Nazis at all, and doesn’t vote for them.

            “In the 2019 Ukrainian elections, the far-right nationalist electoral alliance, including Svoboda, National Corps, Right Sector, Azov Battalion, OUN, and Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, under-performed expectations. In the presidential election, its candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi received 1.6% of the vote, and in the parliamentary election, it was reduced to a single seat and saw its national vote fall to 2.15%, half of its result from 2014 and one-quarter of its result from 2012.”

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Ukraine

            The country has a Jewish president and a Muslim cabinet minister. Sound like a Nazi country to you?

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              The country has a Jewish president and a Muslim cabinet minister. Sound like a Nazi country to you?

              identity politics are boring. there were Jewish collaborators in the third Reich.

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      They’re creating lists of people and looking into their associated social networks. Do you want to be on a list of people your government has suddenly associated with crime and terrorism because your cousin went to a gay bar?

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          People who want to pretend this couldn’t happen in America need to realise 2021 Maryland used obscenity laws banning oral sex to raid a gay bookstore and arrest people for having sex in private. That’s a somewhat rural part of one of the most progressive states, there are far too many republicans that would love to use some flimsy excuse to criminalize gay people and throw as many in jail as possible.