c/world · by ByeBrie@lemmings.world · 1y

Russian man arrested for allegedly running LGBTQ+ travel agency found dead in custody

https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-arrest-extremism-e5fd33b605d23df0878ba904c0f0a1cf

A Russian man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead in custody in Moscow, rights group OVD-Info reported Sunday, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The man looks a lot like Putin.

CrazyFrog97@discuss.online · 9 pts · 1y

SUPER GAY PUTIN

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

i wish

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

here's the actual guy

acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I think you got your photos mixed, this definitely doesn’t look like Putin. /jk

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

That's how Putin looks without the makeup and prosthetics.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

can tell they don't like gay people, but prosecuting them won't make them straight, useless sweep-them-under-the-rug operation

theUwUhugger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Christian virtue signaling! Worked for the nazis, works for the neo nazis!

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

All Nazis are fascists but not all fascists are Nazis.

Putin's government is a (white) Russian supremacist Orthodox fascist theocracy, which is another type of fascist shit show than Nazism.