No. 300: Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination and Violence

Author(s): Radzhana Buyantueva, Sergei Katsuba
Series Editor(s): Fabian Burkhardt, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 300
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2023

This issue deals with anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence in Russia. Radzhana Buyantueva gives a broad overview of related societal developments, focusing on the state-sponsored conservatism which manages to present anti-LGBTQ legislation as a necessary measure of national security. Sergei Katsuba then goes on to look more specifically at the "gay propaganda law" of 2013 and its impact on anti-LGBTQ violence on the basis of hate crime statistics and court cases.

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