Anti-LGBT hate crimes in Russia have doubled since it introduced a "gay propaganda" law. People wave gay rights' movement rainbow flags during the gay pride rally in Saint Petersburg.

A Saint Petersburg court ruled last week that two lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social media groups violated Russia’s notorious “gay propaganda” law and ordered the sites ...

Russia is considering doubling fines for exposing children to what it calls "LGBT propaganda" and making any event or act seen as promoting homosexuality an administrative offence, the text of ...

In a 2024 survey of LGBT people in Russia conducted by Sphere and Coming Out, 82 percent said they saw personal risks after the movement’s “extremist” designation, and 88 percent said they ...

Russia’s top court declared an “international LGBT public movement” to be an extremist organization, paving the way for a new wave of repression even as no such group exists in the country.

As the global LGBT community marks Pride Month, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people face growing, state-sanctioned homophobia and violence in Russia, activists say. In its World Report ...

The concert of the Tatu group, which reunited 14 years after the collapse, is being demanded to be canceled in the Crimea.

Russia’s top court declared the “international LGBT public movement” to be an extremist organization, paving the way for a new wave of repression even as no such group exists in the country.

Russia’s upper house of parliament unanimously voted on Wednesday to toughen a controversial law banning what the bill describes as “LGBT propaganda,” making it apply to Russians of all ages.

A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google GOOGL.O 3 million roubles ($38,600) on Thursday for failing to delete YouTube videos it said promoted "LGBT propaganda" and "false information" about Russia ...

In Russia, however, transgender people from other countries often find themselves in vulnerable positions, victims of both homophobia and xenophobia.

The number of transgender people officially applying to be recognized as transgender in Russia rose from around 300 people in 2018 when the passport laws were introduced to more than 2,700 in 2022.