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LGBTQ+ News

Russia “absolutely sure” its people won’t be affected by Mpox outbreak due to country’s “traditional values”

Graham Robson August 21, 2024

Russia, which in 2023 ruled the LGBTQ+ movement to be “extremist”, before outlawing it in the country, has said it’s “absolutely sure” that the spread of Mpox is “not something we need to be afraid of” because gays don’t exist in the country. The alert declaring Mpox a clear and present danger to the international […]

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Transgender News

Russia’s ‘abominable’ new legislation against transgender people will inflict ‘unbearable suffering’

Graham Robson July 15, 2023

The State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) has adopted a package of amendments to the Family Code and several federal laws aimed at imposing a ban on legal gender recognition and gender-affirmative interventions. 

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International News

Russian court upholds lengthy prison sentences for Chechen LGBTQ+ siblings

Graham Robson October 26, 2022

Amnesty International has responded to news that a Russian court has upheld lengthy prison sentences for Chechen LGBTQ+ siblings Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev – who, Amnesty say, had been “falsely accused of aiding illegal armed groups”.

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International News

Russia considering doubling fines for exposing children to ‘LGBT propaganda’

Graham Robson September 1, 2022

Russia is considering doubling fines for exposing children to what it calls ‘LGBT propaganda’ and making any event or act seen as promoting homosexuality an administrative offence, the text of proposed new legislation made public on Wednesday, August 31 showed.

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