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# LGBTQ+ crackdown: Police in Moscow raid multiple queer bars in the early hours of Saturday, November 30
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/lgbtq-crackdown-police-in-moscow-raid-multiple-queer-bars-in-the-early-hours-of-saturday-november-30/
- Published: 2024-11-30T13:29:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-30T13:29:33.000Z
- Description: Police in Moscow raided multiple queer bars in the early hours of Saturday, November 30 and arrested the director of a travel agency serving LGBTQ+ customers under laws criminalising “LGBT propaganda.” The raids came on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Supreme Court outlawing the “international
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: LGBT, LGBTQ, Moscow, Russia, Russian

Police in **Moscow** raided multiple queer bars in the early hours of **Saturday, November 30** and arrested the director of a travel agency serving LGBTQ+ customers under laws criminalising “LGBT propaganda.”

The raids came on the one-year anniversary of **Russia’s Supreme Court** outlawing the “international LGBT movement,” paving the way for arrests and prosecutions of the country’s LGBTQ+ community.

Social media videos from the **Arma** nightclub showed clubbers sitting on the dancefloor while riot police shouted orders.

Another video showed people being walked out of the popular **Mono** gay club in central Moscow with their hands above their heads, with a police van parked outside.

The interior ministry said police had also raided a nightclub – reported to be **Inferno** – had been “propagandising the ideology of the banned LGBT movement.”

Police in the Russian capital also arrested the director of a travel agency for gay men on suspicion of “organising tours for members of the LGBT community.”

The 48-year-old director of **Men Travel** was suspected of “preparing a trip for supporters of non-traditional sexual values to go to Egypt for the New Year holidays”.

Rights groups say the country is waging an unprecedented crackdown on LGBTQ+ people that has seen the owners of LGBTQ+ bars arrested and anyone associated with promoting LGBTQ+ rights prosecuted.