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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The man looks a lot like Putin.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months 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.