“LGBT movement” must never involve children
Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) expanded its list of persons and organizations involved in extremist activities or terrorism and the list now includes the LGBT movement.
According to the law, banks must freeze the funds of persons included in this list and suspend services to them. However, according to Interfax sources, the law “does not affect the right of citizens to privacy and will not entail any negative legal consequences.” The restrictions are related to the need to comply with the ban on “LGBT propaganda.”
The ban includes advertising, generating interest, and involvement in the LGBT movement. This is over and above the 2022 ban concerning “LGBTQ propaganda” being exposed to minors. At the time Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, said that the ban would shield “our children and the future of the country from the darkness spread by the U.S. and European states.”
Last month Vladimir Putin made it clear that Russian authorities do not have issues with what community members do in their personal lives. That said, he asserted that it becomes an issue when they “flaunt it” in public.
Putin emphatically warned that the “LGBT movement” must never involve children otherwise there would be severe consequences.