Russia's Justice Ministry Seeks Supreme Court Ban on 'International LGBT Public Movement'

The lawsuit, part of a broader conservative trend in Russian social policy, is the latest move against overseas LGBT pride campaigns.

Russia's Ministry of Justice has filed a lawsuit with the nation's Supreme Court to outlaw the 'international LGBT public movement' as extremist.
The lawsuit is the latest and most comprehensive legal move against LGBT pride campaigns from overseas by the Russian government, which has firmly opposed liberalizing sexual norms.
The Supreme Court of Russia will hold a hearing on the lawsuit on Nov. 30.
It is not immediately clear how a successful ban on the 'public movement' would manifest, nor how such a prohibition would be enforced.
Russian social policy has trended conservative on LGBT issues for many years while Putin's government characterizes the rise of same-sex couples and transgenderism as undesirable social contagions from the West.