The Ministry of Justice of Russia called journalist Vadim Vaganov “activist” of a nonexistent “international public movement of LGBT”. This is stated in the recall of the department, writes the human rights project “The First Department”. With a document of the Ministry of Justice, the lawyer for the rights of the LGBTK-Luda Maxim Olenichev, who represents the interests of the journalist and disputes his status of a “foreign agent.” It says that Vaganov “is an activist of the international public movement of LGBT” prohibited in Russia by the decision of the Supreme Court in November in November 2023. According to Olenichev, the Ministry of Justice first called a specific person an activist of a nonexistent “international public movement of LGBT.” Earlier, in the decision on the recognition of the “movement”, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation indicated that “281 individuals participating in the activities of the movement were established”. The surnames and other data of these people were not called. Vaganov Vaganov – St. Petersburg politician and former member of Yabloko, journalist of the site “Guys Plus”. After the State Duma adopted the law on the ban on LGBT Propaganda in 2022, he made a camming out. In 2024, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Vaganov a “foreign agent”. According to the department, he distributed the materials of “foreign aggressions” and “inaccurate information about the electoral system of the Russian Federation”. (Tagstotranslate) News
