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The head of the Russian LGBT Network, Igor Kochetkov, centre, says ‘all legal
activities of LGBT organisations will be impossible in Russia’. Photograph: AP
The head of the Russian LGBT Network, Igor Kochetkov, centre, says ‘all legal
activities of LGBT organisations will be impossible in Russia’. Photograph: AP
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Russia’s supreme court has outlawed what it called an “international LGBT public
movement” as extremist, in a landmark ruling that representatives of gay and
transgender people warn will lead to arrests and prosecutions of the already
repressed LGBTQ+ community.

The ruling in effect outlaws LGBTQ+ activism in a country growing increasingly
conservative since the start of the war in Ukraine. The “extremist” label could
mean that gay, lesbian, transgender or queer people living in Russia could
receive lengthy prison sentences if deemed by the authorities to be part of the
so called “international LGBT public movement”.



The justice ministry earlier this month filed a request that the “international
LGBT movement” be labelled extremist, without clarifying what it meant under the
term, which is not a registered entity in Russia but rather a broad definition
used by the Russian authorities.



Human rights activists have said the vague wording of the ruling that targets
the “international LGBT public movement” allows Russian authorities to persecute
any individual or organisation it considers to be part of the “movement”.

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“Even though there is no such thing as an international LGBT movement, it is
clear that all legal activities of LGBT organisations will be impossible in
Russia,” said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the rights group Russian LGBT Network.

Lucy Shtein, a Russian political activist and member of the Pussy Riot art
collective said that “everyone who identifies themselves as part of the LGBTQ+
movement could now become a target”.

Thursday’s hearing took place behind closed doors and with no defendant.

The Kremlin has previously used the extremist label to prosecute human rights
groups, independent media and political opposition, including allies of the
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, some of whom have received lengthy sentences.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has launched a fresh
effort to promote “traditional values”, with the Russian leader making anti-gay
rhetoric one of the cornerstones of his political agenda. In previous speeches,
Putin accused the west of “moving towards open satanism”, citing the promotion
of gay and transgender rights in Europe as an example.



The Russian president repeated his disdain for the LGBTQ+ community during a
speech this month referring to trans people as “transformers”. Some Kremlin
critics have said the rhetoric is an attempt on the part of Moscow to create an
internal enemy as Russia’s war in Ukraine dragged on with LGBTQ+ people being
used as scapegoats by the authorities.

Kochetkov said the bill was part of Moscow’s effort to “create imaginary enemies
within the framework of its ideology promoting ‘traditional values’”.

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“This ideology is becoming totalitarian,” he said.

Friday’s lawsuit comes after several recent laws introduced to suppress LGBTQ+
people in Russia. This year Putin signed a law that banned “LGBT propaganda”
among adults. The bill criminalised any act regarded as an attempt to promote
what Russia calls “non-traditional sexual relations” – in film, online, in
advertising or in public.

In the aftermath, Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre dropped a ballet about the Russian
dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, while bookstores and cinemas withdrew
all content containing LGBTQ+ themes.

Some of the Kremlin’s efforts to stifle LGBTQ+ culture has been mocked by
critics for the level of absurdity. Last week, a popular Russian television
channel removed a rainbow featured in K-pop music, leading to a request by the
Russian Duma to officially declare there was no link between rainbows and the
LGBTQ+ community.

Over the summer, Russian lawmakers also banned medical intervention and
administrative procedures that would allow people to change gender.

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