A Russian authorities who resigned after a federal legislator implicated him of remaining in a relationship with a male hasfled the country and denounced Moscow $ s war against Ukraine.In April, State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein outed Denis Leontovich, an ex-employee of the Samara region $ s youth policy company, as a member of what he declared to be a $ secret gay lobby $ that affects young Russians.
Khinshtein $ s accusations follow Russia $ s Supreme Court judgment last November that designated a vaguely defined $ worldwide LGBT public movement $ as a banned $ extremist $ company.
Civil liberties activists state the $ extremist $ label allows the Russian authorities to prosecute anyone connected to LGBTQ+ lifestyles or symbols.
$ It $ s been 6 months given that my forced exile [when] I had to choose to leave Russia in one day because I began getting real dangers, $ Leontovich, 23, composed on the social networks site Vkontakte in early October.
$ I $ ve been required to develop my life from scratch in other countries and cities, $ Leontovich included.
$ Why? Just due to the fact that my own state doesn $ t accept me as a human being [or] my sexual preference.
To them, I $ m an extremist, a traitor and a criminal just because I was born gay.
$ Leontovich accused the Russian government of declaring pro-peace Russians $ opponents of the state $ instead of $ the president who annexes other people $ s territories and begins an absolutely dreadful war with a surrounding country.
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