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Russia might brand LGBTQ organizations as “extremist” in order to ban them
Moscow Times reports.Andrei Tsyganov, chairman of a regulatory commission that purports to protect children, said last week that it was “necessary to expand” the rights of law enforcement in order to target the groups.Alongside LGBTQ groups, Tsyagnov also highlighted “furries” — those interested in anthropomorphic animal characters — as an “extremist ideology.”“LGBT ideology, radical feminism, all these furries, child-free — they, of course, must be recognized at least as extremism, extremist ideology,” Tsyganov said, “in order to untie the hands of our law enforcers.”The rebranding would allow regulators to “protect” children in Russia from seeing “destructive” LGBTQ content on social media and the wider internet, the Times reports.In
