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25 February 2024 by Valery Panyushkin Source: Spektr.press Had anyone told Netochka Nezvanova that she was a lesbian or Plato that he was gay, they would each have been very…
5 December 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda The Russian Supreme Court’s decision to deem the nonexistent “international LGBT movement” extremist is absurd in form but natural and explicable…
1 December 2023 By Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.press Spitting on sexual minorities is a much-loved entertainment of dictators. It is a relatively inexpensive means of gaining popularity with certain groups…
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Yan Dvorkin. Photo source: https://centre-t.ru/yan_dvorkin 29 November 2023 Transcribed by Galya Sova Source: OVD-Info Yan Dvorkin, the director and founder of Centre-T, stayed in his beloved Moscow until the very…
18 November 2023 by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta The initiative of the Ministry of Justice, which filed an administrative suit with the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to…
12 December 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV In Russia, they are to cease issuing certificates to films containing materials ‘promoting non-traditional sexual relationships or preferences, paedophilia or sex change.’…
26 November 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…
20 November 2021 An extract from an interview with Igor Kochetkov, who has worked to save the lives of LGBT people in Chechnya and has now been named a "foreign…
Week-ending 19 November 2021 'We, the undersigned Russian and international human rights organizations condemn the escalating attacks against Russian LGBT Network, its leadership and partners. We call on the Russian…
13 September 2021 Two young Chechens who criticized the authorities on the Internet were abducted and forced to publicly repent. After leaving Chechnya, they were detained in Nizhny Novgorod on…
