9 February 2024
In an address to Joe Biden in 2021, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov declared that there were no ‘roosters’ in Chechnya, a pejorative term for gay men, ‘and there is not even such a word’.
The Chechen authorities veer strikingly close to
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