Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

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      Are you suggesting that the Russian military isn’t part of the Russian government, which is doing pogroms against gays?

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        I’m saying most places don’t integrate neo-Nazi units. I didn’t say anything about Russia.

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          Most countries aren’t fighting in an existential war either, sometimes one must take the allies they can get. You seem to be implying that Azov’s existence means something about Ukrainian national policy though, which is totally wrong. Zelensky is Jewish, and as others have pointed out to you Azov is shrinking and its members being integrated into other units:

          The regiment’s size was estimated to be around 2,500 combatants in 2017, and around 900 in 2022

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            sometimes one must take the allies they can get.

            it’s one thing to send them to the front lines with slingshots, it’s another entirely to let them poison your own ranks.