Vladimir Putin

Side by side screenshots from a video from state-run media of police in Russia raiding an alleged 'anti-war LGBTQ+ party'

World
Feb 23 2024

Russian police raid alleged ‘anti-war LGBTQ+ party’, say state media

Russia's president Vladimir Putin, who recently attacked the use of gender-neutral and unisex toilets abroad, looks into the camera while wearing a suit and tie

News
Jan 17 2024

Putin claims Russians returning to the country due to gender neutral toilets abroad

World
Oct 13 2023

‘You left Russia, but Russia never left you’: Queer couple scarred after fleeing anti-LGBTQ+ violence

Russia president Vladimir Putin, who has led a crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and so-called 'foreign agents', wears a suit and tie as he speaks to people off camera

Europe
May 07 2023

Russia adds LGBTQ+ human rights group to controversial list

Several protestors march down a street, as a member of the public holds up a picture of Vladimir Putin, edited so that he is wearing makeup.

Activism
Jan 05 2023

Queer Russian activists won’t give up their fight: ‘We’ll keep making LGBTQ+ propaganda’

People hold up rainbow LGBTQ+ Pride flags and a sign reading 'stop hate' during a protest in Russia

World
Dec 28 2022

Any website with ‘LGBTQ+ propaganda’ can now be banned in Russia under hate-fuelled new law

Law
Nov 30 2022

Russia’s upper house of parliament passes LGBTQ+ propaganda law

Biden, Putin and Griner

US
Oct 14 2022

Joe Biden might meet with Putin – but only if he agrees to release Brittney Griner

Vladimir Putin sits at a desk

World
Oct 10 2022

Vladimir Putin says US and NATO want to ‘impose perversions’ on school kids

Gay rights activists march in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg May 1, 2013.

World
Jul 11 2022

Russia announces plan to extend ‘gay propaganda’ law to adults in chilling crackdown

A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin with make-up.

Activism
Apr 26 2022

LGBT+ activists forced to flee Russia as vicious dictator Putin clamps down on queerness

Headshots of Vladimir Putin and JK Rowling

World
Mar 25 2022

Vladimir Putin decries ‘cancelling’ of JK Rowling in ‘book burning’ rant

Protester hold a 'gay clown' poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin during the demonstration of LGBT Associations, in front of the Russian Embassy in Rome. The picture has been shared since the invasion of Ukraine

World
Mar 09 2022

Gay Russian man ‘ashamed’ of his country says Putin ‘disconnected from reality’

A man showing a picture of Vladimir Putin during a protest supporting LGBT+ people in Chechnya

World
Mar 07 2022

Bulgaria’s top broadcasters hacked to air illegal Vladimir Putin ‘gay clown’ meme