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Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
The Conversation ^ | 4/8/24 | Sergey Katsuba

Posted on 07/06/2024 3:11:17 PM PDT by JonPreston

Just over three decades after Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993, three people have been arrested and charged under the country’s harsh new anti-LGBT laws and could face ten years in prison for membership of an “extremist organisation”.

The arrests are a clear indication of how Russia has come full circle on its persecution of sexual minorities under Vladimir Putin.

On March 21, the district court of Orenburg city in south-western Russia ordered the arrest of nightclub owner Vyacheslav Khasanov. The nightclub, which is called Pose, has never explicitly identified as a gay club – styling itself as a “parody theatre bar”, it hosted parties with drag queen artists and go-go dancers as entertainment.

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To: JonPreston


"You better not. You'll likely wind up in jail with this new law."













41 posted on 07/06/2024 7:09:07 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: JonPreston

GOOD


42 posted on 07/06/2024 7:15:45 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: JonPreston

GOOD


43 posted on 07/06/2024 7:16:21 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: JonPreston

I see no problem with repressing evil.


44 posted on 07/06/2024 7:16:36 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This is your “argument style”? That’s pretty weak. Does it really work with anyone with the IQ above a Christmas lightbulb wattage?


45 posted on 07/06/2024 7:58:07 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Phoenix8

There’s no difference.


46 posted on 07/06/2024 8:05:46 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: JonPreston

Seems absolutely NO different from pre 1968 America.


47 posted on 07/06/2024 8:13:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: JonPreston
"The arrests are a clear indication of how Russia has come full circle"


48 posted on 07/06/2024 8:36:11 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

In a sane, virtuous society, that thing in the picture wouldn’t get within ten miles of a child.


49 posted on 07/07/2024 12:53:42 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Ronald77

I do not think Russia is wrong. The Bible clearly tells us about what is wrong with man and man. That is all I need.


50 posted on 07/07/2024 2:02:07 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: PGR88
Seems absolutely NO different from pre 1968 America.

In 1968 the American bloodstream was forced open and poison was injected into our culture, forever changing US in the most negative of ways.

51 posted on 07/07/2024 3:25:17 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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