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A Second Wave in Chechnya’s “Gay Purges” • Instinct Magazine
Map of the Chechnya Region in southwestern Russia (image via WikiMedia Commons)
Six months after global media and human rights groups brought renewed focus on Chechnya, a semi-autonomous region in southwestern Russia with a lurid recent history of brutal anti-gay abuses, attention has returned to the area once again. Sadly, conditions have not improved – rather, recent reports have shed new light on the extent and ruthlessness of repression, which never went away.
The First “Gay Purge” and Global Backlash
In early-to-mid-2017,...
