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A Russian man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead in custody in Moscow, rights group OVD-Info reported Sunday, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia.

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[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The man looks a lot like Putin.

[–] CrazyFrog97@discuss.online 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i wish

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

here's the actual guy

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you got your photos mixed, this definitely doesn’t look like Putin. /jk

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

That's how Putin looks without the makeup and prosthetics.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

can tell they don't like gay people, but prosecuting them won't make them straight, useless sweep-them-under-the-rug operation

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Christian virtue signaling! Worked for the nazis, works for the neo nazis!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

All Nazis are fascists but not all fascists are Nazis.

Putin's government is a (white) Russian supremacist Orthodox fascist theocracy, which is another type of fascist shit show than Nazism.