Police conducted searches at Moscow's Garage museum of contemporary art, Russian media reported on Friday.
The “Caution News” Telegram news channel reported that officers visited the museum’s archive building and a second building where Garage conducts walking tours.
“The managers and curators of the garage were detained and they are prohibited from using phones until the end of [the searches],” the publication reports.
According to the publication, law enforcement officers arrived in unmarked cars around noon Moscow time and did not introduce themselves to museum employees. The officers reportedly had a list of senior museum managers they wanted to speak to, six of whom were in custody at the Garage office as of Friday afternoon.
Federal Security Service (FSB) officers searched the Garage for two hours before leaving and did not detain anyone, according to news sites RBC and Novaya Gazeta Europe, which said they were unable to establish the reason for the investigative actions.
The news outlet Podyom reported that employees of both buildings denied that police searches were carried out.
There was no official confirmation or denial from law enforcement agencies.
Beware News reported that some Garage employees linked the searches to LGBTQ+ literature stored in its archives.
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