Cultural purity laws. Well, that's not worryingly anti-democratic and authoritarian, is it?

The Chechen government has denied such allegations, claiming there were no homosexual people in Chechnya, and those who did exist would be rooted out by their own families.

Jfc

Sounds like that Chechnyian Dictator is about to bring back Disco to his clubs, you can still make dance music at 116 BPM (the peak of his restriction):

https://youtu.be/5NV6Rdv1a3I?si=sARNqr-vneZRTaOy

https://youtu.be/R8OOWcsFj0U?si=-UWm2nEbkLk0jnwD

Idiots in power. It's always idiots in power; the power hungry never deserve their posts.

"The birds sang, the proles sang, the Party did not sing."

– George Orwell's 1984

Is this an out-of-season april fools joke?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Russian republic of Chechnya has banned dance music it deems either too fast or too slow, in an attempt to quash a “polluting” western influence on the conservative majority-Muslim region.

According to reports in Russian media, Dadayev set artists in the region a deadline of 1 June to rewrite any music that does not conform to the rule.

The law in effect criminalises most modern dance music genres that are typically played in clubs around the world, such as house, techno, dubstep or drum’n’bass.

Some hip-hop and rap, which is typically played at speeds between 60 and 140 beats per minute, would in theory still qualify for the traditional Chechen “sense of rhythm” that the regime of the authoritarian leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, wants to preserve.

Chechnya, in the North Caucasus region of eastern Europe, has in recent years been repeatedly criticised by human rights organisations for its violent persecution of sexual minorities.

The Chechen government has denied such allegations, claiming there were no homosexual people in Chechnya, and those who did exist would be rooted out by their own families.

The original article contains 307 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 41%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!