MOSCOW — Russia has added what it calls the “LGBT movement” to a list of extremist and terrorist organizations, state media stated on Friday.The transfer was according to a ruling by Russia’s Supreme Court final November that LGBTQ activists needs to be designated as extremists, a transfer that representatives of homosexual and transgender individuals stated they feared would lead to arrests and prosecutions.The list is maintained by an company referred to as Rosfinmonitoring that has powers to freeze the financial institution accounts of the greater than 14,000 individuals and entities designated as extremists and terrorists. They vary from Al Qaeda to U.S. tech large Meta and associates of late Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny.The new itemizing refers to the “international LGBT social movement and its structural units,” state information company RIA stated.As half of a shift beneath President Vladimir Putin in the direction of what he portrays as household values that distinction with decadent Western attitudes, Russia has tightened restrictions over the previous decade on expressions of sexual orientation and gender id.Among different steps, it has handed legal guidelines outlawing the promotion of “non-traditional” sexual relations and banned authorized or medical adjustments of gender.