A court in Orenburg sentences three employees of the “Pose” bar in Russia to prison terms of up to seven years over charges connected to LGBTQ+ activity, according to multiple reports. The Central District Court finds the defendants guilty of organizing and participating in an “extremist organization” tied to LGBTQ+ content, following a raid conducted in 2024 and roughly a year of pre-trial detention. The case is described as the first criminal prosecution linked to a 2023 move by Russia’s Supreme Court, which designated an allegedly “non-existent” “LGBT movement” as extremist. The Moscow Times reports that this is the first instance in which criminal charges are brought in connection with that Supreme Court designation, highlighting the novelty of the legal approach. Kyiv Post similarly frames the verdict as the first case connected to Russia’s designation of the LGBTIQ+ movement as extremist propaganda. Both accounts place the ruling within a broader pattern of actions and restrictions targeting LGBTIQ+ rights, including law-enforcement raids and subsequent prosecutions.