- 22:05 28/08/2013
The author of a police-confiscated portrait of Russia’s ruling tandem dressed in women’s underwear urged President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to order the return of the artwork – and also to “abolish censorship in art.”
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- 13:12 27/08/2013
Investigators have searched apartments belonging to prominent Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alexeyev Tuesday, against whom a criminal case has been launched over his Twitter remarks addressing senior lawmakers.
- 22:27 22/08/2013
A gay rights group has delivered a petition to the headquarters of Procter & Gamble calling on the US consumer goods giant to pull sponsorship of the Sochi Olympic games to protest a Russian law on homosexuality, local media reported.
- 21:50 22/08/2013
The star of the US television show “Prison Break,” Wentworth Miller, turned down an invitation to be a guest of honor at next month’s St. Petersburg International Film Festival, telling festival organizers in a letter published this week, “As a gay man, I must decline.”
- 21:08 21/08/2013
A widely distributed magazine that a lobby group said advertised prostitutes in Moscow was shut down by court order on Wednesday because it was an “erotic” publication masquerading as an advertising periodical.
- 12:34 20/08/2013
Russian sprinters Ksenia Ryzhova and Yulia Guschina said Tuesday they are outraged at the reaction to their now-infamous podium kiss at the world athletics championships and denied it was an act of protest against Russia's controversial anti-gay law.4
- 22:32 19/08/2013
Unidentified “scum” threw a Molotov cocktail at a Russian Orthodox Church where the lawmaker who kick-started Russia’s anti-“gay propaganda” trend helps out as an altar server, the legislator said on Twitter.1
- 20:32 12/08/2013
The bill on “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on July 29. Originally titled the bill on“homosexual propaganda,” the law criminalizes the public expression of support for “nontraditional” relationships.
- 14:55 10/08/2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron says he is "deeply concerned" about the "abuse of gay people in Russia" but insists a boycott of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is the wrong way to tackle the issue.
- 09:34 10/08/2013
A former government official-turned-popular blogger reported Friday being questioned over a complaint by the lawmaker behind Russia’s notorious anti-gay legislation.1
- 23:23 08/08/2013
IAAF president Lamine Diack said Thursday that Russia’s controversial legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors "has to be respected" but will have no impact on the upcoming world athletics championships in Moscow.
- 10:19 08/08/2013
A brief look at what is in the Russian papers today
- 23:34 07/08/2013
A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official on Wednesday deflected Western criticism of the so-called anti-gay law, saying the recently adopted legislation did not violate the rights of sexual minorities in the country but was aimed at protecting minors.2
- 19:03 07/08/2013
Gay rights will not be infringed upon before, during or after the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Olympic supervisor Dmitry Kozak insisted Wednesday.1
- 18:38 07/08/2013
Film and television star Stephen Fry urged the British prime minister and the International Olympics Committee on Wednesday to impose an “absolute ban” on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi for what he described as Russia’s persecution of gays.1
- 19:46 06/08/2013
The American pop star known the world over as Lady Gaga is all but taunting Russian authorities in response to reports they may prosecute her for violating the terms of her visa by giving a performance in Russia last year.2
- 21:28 05/08/2013
Russian socialite-turned-political activist Ksenia Sobchak said Monday that investigators had called her in for questioning regarding online insults to lawmakers who had backed anti-gay legislation.
- 20:56 03/08/2013
A Berlin-based drag queen has sewed her mouth shut to protest Russia’s recent anti-gay laws – and documented her painful ordeal in a short video, German and international media reported.1
- 01:28 02/08/2013
The newest US senator on Capitol Hill took aim at the Russian government this week, condemning what he called the country’s “hateful” new law on homosexuality, and asking Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak for assurances that American athletes and tourists at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be safe.4
