In the course of President Vladimir Putin's rule, Russia has engaged in a widespread crackdown on LGBT rights, portraying ...

A new “council of experts” set up in Russia is leveraging a decade-old law against gay “propaganda” to censure books. The ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Just over three decades after Russia ... be LGBT propaganda and subject to legal sanction. This social media post resulted in a fine for the author. In 2022 the law ...

Russia's book union has created an advisory body to check books' compliance with national legislation, namely recent laws ...

Georgians continue to take to the streets to demonstrate against draft legislation that they say would infringe on their ...

which resembles a Russian law that Moscow has used to crack down on dissidents, say it could undermine efforts for Georgia to join the European Union. By Ivan Nechepurenko Russia’s president ...

Thousands have taken to the streets of the Georgian capital to protest against the ruling party’s proposed law targeting ...

the system can now be used at elections and referendums across Russia at a national and regional level, after an online government portal showed Putin had signed the law, which had already passed ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The State Department said Russia had used ...

The arrests are a clear indication of how Russia has come full circle on its persecution of sexual minorities under Vladimir Putin ... were also deemed to be LGBT propaganda and subject to legal ...