According to state media reports, police in Moscow raided several restaurants early on Saturday and detained the chairman of a queer travel agency in violation of the country’s “LGBT propaganda.”
The Supreme Court of Russia’s Supreme Court’s one-year anniversary of outlawing the “international LGBT motion” was the occasion for the arrests and prosecutions of the nation’s now oppressed LGBTQ community.
As part of “measures to combat LGBT propaganda,” Soviet security forces conducted immediately raids on at least three pubs and nightclubs, according to the state TASS news agency.
During riot police squawking commands, video footage from the Arma bar, the former home of the Mutabor, captured club-goers dancing on the dancefloor.
Another video showed a police vehicle parked outside the well-known Mono gay club in northern Moscow and people walking out with their arms up above their heads.
Police, according to the interior ministry, even conducted a raid on an unknown nightclub on Skladochnaya Street, which had been “propagandising the philosophy of the banned LGBT motion.”
The team was given the name” Inferno Night” by the Interfax news organization.
On fear of “organizing tours for members of the Gay neighborhood,” the authorities in the capital even detained the chairman of a gay men’s travel agency.
The 48-year-old producer of” People Go” was suspected of “preparing a vacation for followers of non-traditional sexual norms to go to Egypt for the New Year breaks”, the TASS news agency reported Saturday, citing law enforcement.
Since the Kremlin launched its military assault on Ukraine nearly three years ago, the country has become a battle between the West and its principles.
The state is waging an unprecedented crackdown on Gay people, according to rights groups, which has resulted in the arrest of gay bar owners and the prosecution of anyone who supports LGBTQ rights.
