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.

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    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?