‘LGBT movement’ added to Russia’s terrorist list

Banks should freeze funds and suspend services to persons and groups included in the list

Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) on Friday expanded its list of persons and organizations involved in extremist activities or terrorism to include the LGBT movement. The updated list could be found on the agency’s website.

According to the law, banks are required to freeze the funds of persons included in this list and suspend services to them.

Last November, the Russian Supreme Court upheld the Ministry of Justice’s recognition of the international LGBT movement as extremist. The court also recognized its structural divisions as extremist and banned them.

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