A court in the Russian city of Orenburg has sentenced three people to between two and seven years in jail for being involved in the "LGBT movement".
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The two men and one woman were all employees of the Pose bar which was raided by police after a tip off by pro-Kremlin activists.
It’s the first such case of its kind, after Russia’s supreme court declared "the LGBT movement" as an extremist organisation in 2023.
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