Flagships of Homophobia: Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has become a key tool of authoritarian populism and the promotion of an anti-Western agenda in the post-Soviet space
Over the two years of the war, the situation surrounding the issue of the LGBTQ+ community in the post-Soviet space has seriously deteriorated. This deterioration is evident in Central Asian countries where 'non-traditional relationships' were already criminalised or semi-criminalised, as well as in countries like Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia, which previously maintained a policy of neutrality and non-interference in LGBTQ+ issues.