The deputy head of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will be the judge who banned LGBT

At the end of May, the only candidate to be considered for the position of deputy chair of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will be Oleg Nefedov, who banned a nonexistent LGBT “movement.”

Judge Oleg Nefedov, known for his rulings in a number of high-profile cases, may soon be appointed Deputy Chair of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and Chair of the Civil Division, in particular regarding the ban on the nonexistent “LGBT movement.”

The Civil Division is currently headed by Yuri Glazov, who was appointed back in 2020 under Vyacheslav Lebedev—the predecessor of the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Igor Krasnov. “Vedomosti” notes that after taking office in 2025, Krasnov began implementing personnel changes, as part of which Oleg Nefedov was appointed chairman of the disciplinary commission.

In late December, it was reported that Nefedov was the sole candidate for the position of chair of the Civil Cases Panel.

Nefedov banned LGBT groups and dismissed Navalny's lawsuits

Oleg Nefedov designated the nonexistent “international LGBT movement” and “international Satanist movement” as “extremist” and banned them in Russia, and also suspended the ban in Russia on the radical Islamist “Taliban” movement after it came to power in Afghanistan.

He also dismissed several lawsuits filed by the late opposition figure Alexei Navalny against the Russian Ministry of Justice regarding the rules of the prison where Navalny was being held, and denied Ekaterina Duntseva and Boris Nadezhdin permission to run in the presidential election. Nefedov also designated the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the “Russian Anti-War Committee,” and the “Congress of People’s Deputies” (Kongres Deputowanych Ludowych), led by Ilya Ponomarev, as “terrorist organizations.”