Almost 40 Percent of More than 1,000 Russian LGBTs Attacked were Killed, Memorial Reports

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Dec. 2 – According to the Memorial human rights center, 405 of the 1052 victims of anti-LGBT violence in the Russian Federation were killed, a reminder of the increasingly violent nature of such actions in Putin’s Russia and the dangers ahead as more and more groups are listed as enemies of the regime.
    The Memorial report is available at memorialcenter.org/analytics/gomofobnaya-pravovaya-politika-v-rossii. It has been summarized and discussed by the SOVA Information Center at sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/news/xeno-opinion/2024/12/d50735/ as well as at kasparov.ru/material.php?id=674EC2A2590AC).
    Such mortality figures are unprecedented and show that those Russians now prepared to act on their own on the basis of government propaganda have the willingness and ability not just to harm but to kill, a trend that will likely increase still further when guns from Putin’s war in Ukraine flood back into the Russian Federation.
    On that likelihood, see windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/07/organized-crime-has-risen-in-russia.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/06/returning-veterans-with-criminal-pasts.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/04/illegal-arms-sales-possession-and-use.html, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2023/11/duma-deputies-seek-to-loosen-russian.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/11/guns-from-putins-war-in-ukraine-leading.html.