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Slippery slope. How Russia’s journey into fascism began with the weaponisation of homophobia — Novaya Gazeta Europe

In February 2006, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov announced that pride parades would never be allowed in the Russian capital. His ludicrous reasoning, something about the societal ruin sodomy threatened to rain down on Russian society, could hardly be taken seriously, and was indeed taken as a joke by many. But it was, in fact, a trial run, testing the waters and gauging popular opinion for what was to come.
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Новая газета. Европа broke the news in on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.
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