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| Region | Russia |
| Issue | Homosexual activity |
| Status | Varies by Region |
| Start Date | 1996 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist |
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edited by DaisyGeekyTrans. Reverting to revision #63176: Chechnya
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| Value | Legal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Legal | Varies by Region |
| Description | Homosexuality in the Russian Federation has been fully legal under federal law since 27 May 1993, following the formal repeal of Article 121 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which eliminated all criminal penalties for private, consensual same-sex relations between adults. Additionally, in 1999, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation officially adopted the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 classification, removing homosexuality from the national register of mental disorders. Human rights abuses and informal persecutions documented in the Chechen Republic which stems from localized political dynamics and regional de facto practices that developed during its period of self-proclaimed autonomy starting in 1996 represent an extralegal, regional aberration. These local actions do not reflect federal statutory law and cannot be used as a metric to evaluate Russian federal criminal legislation, which maintains no statutory prohibitions or criminal sanctions against private, adult homosexual orientation or conduct. | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
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| Federal Law | Yes | No |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102041891 | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist |
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edited by EqLawyer. Reverting back to the accurate legal status. Claiming that the legal status of homosexuality in Russia is ambiguous simply because of extrajudicial persecution in Chechnya is absurd and deeply misleading. The Federal Criminal Code of the Russian Federation applies universally across all federal subjects, including the Chechen Republic, and it contains no statutory ban or criminal penalty for consensual same-sex relations. Local human rights abuses and extrajudicial practices by regional authorities do not rewrite codified federal law or change official statutory legality. Conflating illegal extrajudicial actions with federal statutory status distorts basic legal analysis and misinforms readers.
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Legal |
| Special Status | Varies by Region | Legal |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. | Homosexuality in the Russian Federation has been fully legal under federal law since 27 May 1993, following the formal repeal of Article 121 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which eliminated all criminal penalties for private, consensual same-sex relations between adults. Additionally, in 1999, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation officially adopted the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 classification, removing homosexuality from the national register of mental disorders. Human rights abuses and informal persecutions documented in the Chechen Republic which stems from localized political dynamics and regional de facto practices that developed during its period of self-proclaimed autonomy starting in 1996 represent an extralegal, regional aberration. These local actions do not reflect federal statutory law and cannot be used as a metric to evaluate Russian federal criminal legislation, which maintains no statutory prohibitions or criminal sanctions against private, adult homosexual orientation or conduct. |
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| Federal Law | No | Yes |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102041891 |
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edited by UnknownMiles. Reverting to revision #62791: Because Chechnya, by de facto measures, criminalizes homosexuality, the status, therefore, is varies by region.
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| Value | Legal | (REMOVED) |
| Special Status | Legal | Varies by Region |
| Description | Homosexuality in the Russian Federation has been fully legal under federal law since 27 May 1993, following the formal repeal of Article 121 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which eliminated all criminal penalties for private, consensual same-sex relations between adults. Additionally, in 1999, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation officially adopted the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 classification, removing homosexuality from the national register of mental disorders. Human rights abuses and informal persecutions documented in the Chechen Republic which stems from localized political dynamics and regional de facto practices that developed during its period of self-proclaimed autonomy starting in 1996 represent an extralegal, regional aberration. These local actions do not reflect federal statutory law and cannot be used as a metric to evaluate Russian federal criminal legislation, which maintains no statutory prohibitions or criminal sanctions against private, adult homosexual orientation or conduct. | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
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| Federal Law | Yes | No |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102041891 | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist |
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| Value | (REMOVED) | Legal |
| Special Status | Varies by Region | Legal |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. | Homosexuality in the Russian Federation has been fully legal under federal law since 27 May 1993, following the formal repeal of Article 121 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, which eliminated all criminal penalties for private, consensual same-sex relations between adults. Additionally, in 1999, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation officially adopted the World Health Organization’s ICD-10 classification, removing homosexuality from the national register of mental disorders. Human rights abuses and informal persecutions documented in the Chechen Republic which stems from localized political dynamics and regional de facto practices that developed during its period of self-proclaimed autonomy starting in 1996 represent an extralegal, regional aberration. These local actions do not reflect federal statutory law and cannot be used as a metric to evaluate Russian federal criminal legislation, which maintains no statutory prohibitions or criminal sanctions against private, adult homosexual orientation or conduct. |
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| Federal Law | No | Yes |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102041891 |
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edited by UnknownMiles. Reverting to revision #58758: incorrect edit, poor grammar
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| Special Status | Ambiguous | Varies by Region |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. Anyway in reality even consensual sex may be criminalised if spotted which leads to same laws in red states in the USA even after Lawrence vs. Texas and crackdown on clubs is a mere copy of tunusian laws but on different grounds In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
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| Federal Law | Yes | No |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/08/24/russian-men-gay-sex-prison/ | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist |
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| Special Status | Varies by Region | Ambiguous |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. Anyway in reality even consensual sex may be criminalised if spotted which leads to same laws in red states in the USA even after Lawrence vs. Texas and crackdown on clubs is a mere copy of tunusian laws but on different grounds In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
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| Federal Law | No | Yes |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/08/24/russian-men-gay-sex-prison/ |
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created by UnknownMiles
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1 | Original entry | |
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| Status | Varies by Region |
| Start Date | 1996 |
| End Date | (none) |
| Description | In 1996, Chechnya recriminalized homosexuality. In 2000, Chechnya became part of Russia again. This de jure legalized homosexuality, but Chechnya continues to criminalize it in practice. In 2023, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the LGBT movement as extremist and banned it. However, the court's ruling does not concern the private lives of LGBT people; rather, it concerns LGBT activists. |
| Sources | https://mondediplo.com/2018/04/11chechnya-lgbti https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/05/08/russia-new-anti-gay-crackdown-chechnya https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist |