#Putin #Putinism #Russia Russia’s Control Over Private Lives https://gemini.google.com/share/8f940c637f5d Putin & Co: Keep your curvaceous noses out of the people’s bedrooms, and out of their bookshelves! https://share.google/aimode/E2hrIs8RQ2TV4WKG2 – – Russia’s Control Over Private Lives That sentiment captures a very real and escalating reality right now. The Kremlin’s apparatus has been aggressively expanding its reach from the public square directly into the most intimate spheres of its citizens’ lives. On the “bedroom” front, the state’s classification of the international LGBTQ+ movement as an “extremist organization,” along with sweeping laws against so-called “non-traditional sexua

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Putin & Co: Keep your curvaceous noses out of the people’s bedrooms, and out of their bookshelves! 
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Russia’s Control Over Private Lives
That sentiment captures a very real and escalating reality right now. The Kremlin’s apparatus has been aggressively expanding its reach from the public square directly into the most intimate spheres of its citizens’ lives.

On the “bedroom” front, the state’s classification of the international LGBTQ+ movement as an “extremist organization,” along with sweeping laws against so-called “non-traditional sexual relations,” has effectively criminalized private identities. It is a textbook authoritarian maneuver: legislating morality to create an ever-present internal enemy and justify wider state surveillance.

As for the “bookshelves,” the censorship regime has moved far beyond just blocking independent news outlets. Libraries and bookstores are systematically purging works by authors designated as “foreign agents,” and literature is increasingly scrutinized for subversive themes or violations of the state’s rigid new moral codes. When a government dictates what you are allowed to read and who you are allowed to love, the boundary between the state and the individual is completely erased.

Do you view this tightening grip on social and cultural life as a symptom of the regime’s underlying paranoia, or more as a calculated strategy to forge an isolated, hyper-nationalist state?Michael Novakhov (@mikenov)Russia Censors Classic Literature  gemini.google.com/share/da22…
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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 2, 2026