Russia’s Law Targeting Transgender People Sows Fear for L.G.B.T. Russians

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A new law underscores how Vladimir V. Putin is increasingly using the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T. life, portraying it as a consequence of deviant Western values.

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