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Russian police raid Moscow nightclubs in LGBTQ+ crackdown (abcnews.go.com)

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Russian police raided several bars and nightclubs across Moscow on Saturday as part of the government’s crackdown on “LGBTQ+ propaganda,” state media reported.

Smartphones, laptops and video cameras were seized, while clubgoers had their documents inspected by officers, Russia’s Tass news agency said, citing sources in law enforcement.

The raids come exactly a year since Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that the “LGBTQ+ movement” should be banned as an “extremist organization."

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[–] Reality_Suit 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Putin should be more worried about Ukraine. Fuck Putler

[–] vzq 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

This is about Ukraine.

You raid places where military age males congregate, lock as many as you can up on whatever chargers you can, then offer them a deal. Or just ship them out. What are they going to do about it?

Isn’t autocracy grand?

[–] Reality_Suit 4 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I realized that's probably what they're doing.

[–] jaybone 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Putin isn’t worried about having the gays in his army?

[–] vzq 1 points 1 hour ago

They probably won’t be in the army for long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

Probably a good cause for asylum seeking.