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Russia seeks to outlaw LGBTQ movement as ‘extremist’

Demonstrators wave gay rights' movement rainbow flags at a Pride rally in Saint Petersburg, Russia [File: Olga Maltseva/AFP]

Russian authorities have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement”, in the latest crackdown against the country’s beleaguered community.

The Ministry of Justice said it had “lodged an administrative legal claim” aimed at recognising the LGBTQ movement “as extremist and banning its activity in Russia”.

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