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LGBTI Rights in Russia


ADDED ON: 05/31/2023

Russian legislators are targeting transgender people. It’s the latest move that copies GOP talking points from the US

A new Russian bill could ban transgender healthcare in the country, a move that mirrors legislation being proposed and enacted by Republican lawmakers across the United States. The bill, put forward on…

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ADDED ON: 05/30/2023

LGBTQ Russians flee to Argentina seeking refuge from discrimination, Ukraine war

Anastasia Domini and her wife Anna Domini walked hand in hand on a recent sunny day in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires while their four restless children played nearby. Same-sex couples are a…

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ADDED ON: 05/28/2023

A Growing Number of LGBTQ+ Russians Seek Refuge from War, Discrimination in Argentina

Anastasia Domini and wife Anna Domini walked hand in hand on a recent sunny day in Argentina’s capital while their four restless children played nearby. It’s a common sight in a country…

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ADDED ON: 05/27/2023

Homophobia Is Part of Putin’s War Plan

As Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Ukraine’s invasion on Feb. 24 last year, he digressed to talk about how the West was trying to destroy “traditional values” and impose LGBTQ attitudes that…

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Olga Doletskaya — LGBTQ+ Studies at Risk Conference

Olga Doletskaya is a PhD candidate at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies researching the complexities of queer parenting in Russia. She was recently one of the co-organizers of…

ADDED ON: 05/13/2023

Russia fines Google for refusing to remove LGBTQ+ content

Google has been fined three million rubles (£31,000) by Russia after it refused to remove content which the country said promoted same-sex relationships. The penalty was also imposed for Google showing “false…

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ADDED ON: 05/08/2023

Russia adds LGBTQ+ human rights group to controversial list

Russian authorities added LGBTQ+ human rights defenders NC SOS Crisis Group to the country’s controversial ‘foreign agents’ registry. The group was put on the list on Friday (5 May) along with the chair…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Russia Wants to Ban Transgender People Changing Gender on Passport

Russia's Justice Ministry is gearing up to make it tougher for transgender people to change their gender markers in their passports, which will make gender transition tougher in general. But Russian LGBTQ+…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2023

Bolshoi pulls Nureyev ballet citing ban on LGBT ‘propaganda’

Russia’s Bolshoi Theater has removed a ballet dedicated to dancer Rudolf Nureyev from its repertoire, citing a new Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBT rights, its director…

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ADDED ON: 04/22/2023

How Putin Inadvertently Boosted Support for LGBT Rights in Ukraine

When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, he framed the move in part as a means of defending traditional values from Western attitudes “that are directly…

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ADDED ON: 04/16/2023

Russia may deport Chinese man for ‘LGBT propaganda’

The Supreme Court in the Russian region of Tatarstan has rejected an appeal against an order to deport Chinese citizen Haoyang Xu over "LGBT propaganda." The 21-year-old, who is in the country…

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ADDED ON: 04/08/2023

Russia arrests Chinese LGBTQ blogger for violating so-called same-sex ‘propaganda’ law

Russian authorities arrested a Chinese LGBTQ blogger Wednesday for allegedly violating a law that bans so-called same-sex “propaganda,” according to Adel Khaydarshin, a lawyer representing the blogger and his partner. Chinese national…

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