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# Male medic arrestest in Moscow for “satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships”
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/male-medic-arrestest-in-moscow-for-satanism-and-promoting-same-sex-relationships/
- Published: 2024-10-08T11:05:15.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-08T11:05:15.000Z
- Description: A male medic was arrested in Moscow on Monday, October 7 for “satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships”. In recent years, Russia has intensified a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defence of what it calls “traditional family values”. In July 2023, Russian lawmakers outlawed legal or medica
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: LGBT, LGBTQ, Moscow, Russia

A male medic was arrested in **Moscow** on **Monday, October 7** for “satanism” and “promoting same-sex relationships”.

In recent years, Russia has intensified a legal crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in defence of what it calls “traditional family values”.

In July 2023, Russian lawmakers outlawed legal or medical changes of gender for transgender Russians, and a law banning the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual relations has been on the books for more than a decade.

The **FSB** security service said it had arrested the head of a medical institution in the **Ulyanovsk** region, accusing him of “devil worshipping.”

Such accusations from state authorities are rare, but the influence of the **Orthodox Church** has steadily risen as Russia takes an increasingly conservative social turn.

“In the course of operational searches, it was established that this person, being a supporter of Satanism, promoted the idea of same-sex relations among subordinate employees as a way of initiating them into devil worshipping,” the FSB said.

It said a criminal case has been opened over coercion to engage in sexual acts and participate in an extremist organisation.

Russia, which is bottom in Europe for LGBTQ+ rights, banned what it called the “international LGBT movement” in November last year.