Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'
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Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow after the Supreme Court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement."

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.

  • soshiny@feddit.deEnglish
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    11 months ago

    First they came for the >!socialists!< democrats, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a >!socialist!< democrats.

    Then they came for the >!trade unionists!< journalist, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a >!trade unionist!< journalist.

    Then they came for the >!Jews!< Gays, and I did not speak out— Because I was not >!a Jew!< gay.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

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

      • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          11 months ago

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

          • Jonna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 months ago

            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?

            • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              11 months ago

              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.