In Volgograd, a southern region of Russia, a court found a man named Artyom P. guilty of “displaying the symbols of an extremist organisation.” He had uploaded a photo of an LGBT flag, an act he later described as “out of stupidity.” For this transgression, he has been fined 1,000 roubles (approximately £8.69). This conviction, which the man accepted and for which he expressed repentance, comes in the wake of a nationwide ban on the “LGBT movement” by Russia’s supreme court last November, as part of an escalating pattern of restrictions on sexual orientation and gender identity expression.

In a separate case, a court in Nizhny Novgorod, to the east of Moscow, sentenced a woman to five days in administrative detention for wearing earrings shaped like frogs that bore the image of a rainbow. Identified in court documents as Anastasia Yershova, she was confronted in a cafe by a man who filmed himself demanding she remove the earrings, the video of which he later posted online. The incident underscores the increasing aggressiveness of anti-LGBT actions, which have been further incited by the video’s circulation on ultra-conservative blogs.

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    for wearing earrings shaped like frogs that bore the image of a rainbow

    Looks like a way to arrest anyone. Rainbows are nice, you often see frog and rainbows together. Looks like the person obsessed with LGBT was the judge not the woman wearing the earrings

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      That’s by design. And local redpillers can jump on random people just like that for fun. IIRC Pozdnyakov (owner of the channel leaking the viral video of finding these earpieces) is a local Andrew Tate who too emmigrated to EU after their org was banned for extrimism at home. What a sweet situation to be in.

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    I love how the gays have forcibly taken the rainbow from these christofascist shitheads.

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      Dunno, but Putin already banned USSR for daycares “rainbow”, extremism and undermining the foundations of the constitutional order.

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    So, here’s an idea:

    1. Buy a roll of rainbow/pride/trans flag stickers
    2. While walking around, surreptitiously slap them on the backs/backpacks of the people you pass
    3. Extra points for police/military
    4. Chaos ensues
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      9 months ago

      He fears a lot, but I don’t think he fears his own reflection.

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    9 months ago

    anti-LGBT law

    Lol. This is same law that bans Navalny, Anti-Corruption Foundation and other Putin’s opposition.

    Reality is much simpler: for police(FSB actually) it is easier to catch “extremists” than catching real criminals, while they get salary bonus like solving few murders.

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      Rn you have seven downvotes. That’s the amount of colors in these earrings. That’s one more than even that law mentions lmao. Spread these takes and maybe you’d learn to count.