Russia lists LGBTQ+ movement as extremist and punishable under law!

Published on March 25, 2024 | Published By: shahid | In controversy , Legal , Sexuality

Russia is going from a democratic nation to a dictatorship. It has become exclusive rather than inclusive nation under Vladimir Putin. The latest proof of this is the fact that they have put LGBTQ+ movement in the list of extremists, the state news agency RIA reports.

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LGBTQ+ movement listed as extremist in Russia

Russia is closing its doors to the LGBTQ+ movement. The state news agency RIA has reported that recently the LGBTQ+ movement globally is put in the list of extremists in Russia. This is in line with a November 2023 ruling of the country’s supreme court that had stated that LGBTQ+ community are extremists and the court should treat them as such according to the law.

The agency called Rosfinmonitoring maintains a list of extremists around the world. This list also has names of nearly hundred other organizations such as Al Qaeda, US tech giant Meta, Jehovah’s Witnesses religious movement, and the associates of Alexei Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader whom the government jailed and later he died in captivity this year.

The November 2023 ruling of Supreme court of Russia

Reuters had reported last November that one of its reporters heard a judge in the supreme court of Russia state that they have put a ban on international LGBTQ+ movement. The court designated the movement as an extremist movement. Therefore, under this ruling and listing, LGBTQ+ activists are labeled as extremist and law will deal with them accordingly.

There is a severe restriction in Russia on the gay and homosexual community. The policy makers there under the current regime of Vladimir Putin are against expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity. There is a law that makes non-traditional sexual activities as illegal and punishable. Moreover, promotions of such acts are also liable for punishment and imprisonment.

Additionally, the law there prohibits legal or medical change of gender. Vladimir Putin who has again become the President of Russia believes in traditional moral values and is against the Western wave of gender changes and non-heterosexual relationships.

What LGBTQ+ activists say?

On 17 November 2023, the justice ministry of Russia had said:

“There are various signs and manifestations of extremist orientation, including the incitement of social and religious discord in the activities of the LGBT movement in Russia.”

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On hearing this, LGBTQ+ activists had predicted that the country would not allow the LGBTQ+ people to live in peace. They knew that the mandate against them is inevitably coming. Alexei Sergeyev, an LGBT activist from St. Petersburg says:

“Of course it’s very alarming, and I don’t remember the threat ever being so serious and real,”

Hereafter, reps of gay and transgender people fear that this would lead to arrests and prosecutions. Alexei adds that meetings with gay people and providing them with legal and psychosocial support would be difficult now. These activities would go underground and many needy people would be deprived of the support. He predicted:

“They will either commit suicide or simply be in some terrible state – their life will be shortened and their health will deteriorate, they will drink and smoke more, and so on, somehow trying to escape from this reality.”

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