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The video, shared Saturday by the local news outlet Ura. ru , appears to show riot officers entering a darkly lit bar or club and then abruptly cutting the music and turning the lights on. The officers can be heard yelling, and then about a dozen or so patrons and bar staff members can be seen filing out of the venue. Russian police similarly raided gay bars in Moscow the previous weekend.

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Conversations in Moscow with Russians of different social strata paint a vivid picture of a country grappling with the meaning of the past quarter-century's upheavals. At first it seemed to me as if he was wearing X-ray glasses. Having purchased a fur hat from Sasha, the teenage fartsovchik black marketeer working the Oktyabrskaya subway station in Moscow that day in , I earned the right to chat with him in my broken Russian. Thirty years later my fartsovchik is probably a successful oligarch.

Police in Moscow have raided several gay clubs, local media report, a day after Russia's Supreme Court moved to outlaw the "LGBT movement". Club goers were briefly held and their passports were photographed during the raids late on Friday, Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti said. One attendee told the channel he feared he would be given a lengthy jail term. The police said they were searching for drugs, Ostorozhno Novosti said.