This was announced by the head of the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Valery Gorelykh.

“This was a regular, planned, preventive raid aimed at stabilizing the operational situation in the capital of the Middle Urals,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

The police checked about 270 people; it is specified that ten administrative protocols were drawn up through the State Traffic Inspectorate.

Previously, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd Region, was fined for LGBT symbols on social networks.

* LGBT organization is recognized as extremist, its activities are prohibited in Russia by decision of the Supreme Court of November 30, 2023.