Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Russian LGBT Network emerged in 2006 as a small initiative to rally public support for the elimination of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. By the 19th of October 2008, it reformed into the first inter-regional LGBT rights organization in Russia with fourteen regional branches.
In March 2009, the network sponsored the third Week Against Homophobia in Russia holding roundtables and demonstrations in twelve cities including Arkhangelsk and Saint Petersburg. On the 17th of May 2009 they organized a rainbow flash mob in Saint Petersburg that brought together between one hundred and two hundred fifty people marking what organizers considered the largest demonstration for LGBT rights in Russian history at that time.
In 2015 the network documented two hundred eighty-four reported cases of violence and discrimination against LGBT people in Russia. These included fifty-two instances of physical violence twenty-one abuses by law enforcement agencies and twenty-two labor law violations recorded across nine cities.
Starting from 2017 the Russian LGBT Network began receiving information about mass detentions torture and killings of homosexual men in Chechnya. Since April 2017 the network evacuated around one hundred fifty people out of Chechnya with most settling outside Russia to target individuals threatened by ongoing anti-gay purges.
On the 26th of April 2022 a St. Petersburg court ordered the liquidation of Sphere Charitable Foundation ruling that the organization illegally conducted foreign-backed political activity. This decision effectively dissolved the network's legal existence after sixteen years of operation following its designation as an unregistered public organization performing functions of a foreign agent in October 2021.