Proving membership of a non-existent organisation

Little is known about the ongoing criminal cases, because none have yet come to court. The names of the defendants aren’t public and, apart from the news about cases being opened, there’s basically no information on them. The authorities will have to prove that “the central nature of the actions was in line with the paradigm that the Supreme Court thought up,” says Stanislav Seleznev. “Obviously, no such centralised LGBT organisation exists. For now, no one, apart from the Justice Ministry empl