Reports suggest that Moscow police have conducted searches at numerous gay clubs. This comes after the Russian Supreme Court's decision to ban the "LGBT movement", according to local news sources.
The Ostorozhno Novosti channel on Telegram reported that people at the club were temporarily detained, and their passports were captured in photos during the late-night raids on Friday.
A participant expressed to the network his concern about potentially receiving a long prison sentence.
According to Ostorozhno Novosti, law enforcement declared they were on the hunt for narcotics. So far, no remarks have been made by the city authorities.
During the celebration, the tunes came to a halt, and officers started entering the social rooms, a spectator narrated to the media source, noting that there were also non-natives attending the event in downtown Moscow.
Sota, a different Telegram channel, reported that three establishments were searched on Friday night in Moscow.
Images and a clip have surfaced on social media allegedly displaying a police vehicle and law enforcement officials near a club.
The operations occurred one day following the Russian Supreme Court's classification of the "LGBT public movement" as a radical group, prohibiting its operations nationwide.
The decision was instigated by a proposal from the department of justice, even though there's no such institution that legally exists as an entity.
In 2020, amendments were made to the Russian constitution, explicitly defining marriage as a relationship between a male and a female. Russia does not acknowledge same-sex partnerships.
In the past few years, the nation's LGBT populace has been experiencing growing scrutiny from the government, reports BBC's Steve Rosenberg from Moscow. In 2013, a legislation was enacted that banned the "promotion of non-conventional sexual relationships" targeted at young people.
The previous year, constraints were broadened to include all age demographics in Russia. Mentions of LGBT individuals have been removed from literature, movies, commercials, and television programs.
A few weeks ago, a Russian television station altered the colors of a rainbow in a South Korean music video to evade potential charges of breaching the "homosexual propaganda" legislation.
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