CNN —Police carried out raids on gay venues in Russia late Friday, two online Russian news outlets reported, one day after the country’s top court ruled to ban the “international LGBTQ movement” and labelled it an extremist organization.
“Yesterday was the only drug raid at Hunters Party.
Another source with direct knowledge of the raid on the Hunters Party pop-up told CNN it was just a routine drug raid.
However, people chatting on an online group linked to the Hunters Party expressed their fear.
It is now illegal in Russia to promote or “praise” LGBTQ relationships, publicly express non-heterosexual orientations or suggest that they are “normal.”
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