Russian state media have reported that police raided several bars and nightclubs across Moscow as part of the government’s LGBTQ+ crackdown

As part of a government crackdown on what it calls "LGBT propaganda," Russian police have raided a number of bars and nightclubs in Moscow and arrested a travel agency director.

The raids come exactly a year since Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that the “LGBTQ+ movement” should be banned as an “extremist organisation." #EuropeNews

Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a travel agency serving LGBTQ+ customers under laws criminalizing “LGBT propaganda,” state media reported. The raids came on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Supreme Court outlawing the “international LGBT movement,