Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’
Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/CPRlM Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231202142056/https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-nightclub-raids-crackdown-33e1b9a0110bf22dc2ebc7c42efe6335
Ohhh... I missed it. I thought they were just playing politics and being assholes, but it's worse than that.
It's an additional source of conscripts without having to further mobilize.