- 01:49 25/09/2013
Gay rights protesters who raised their voices and disrupted the start of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s Russia-centric opening night gala on Monday were singing victory on Tuesday, and planning new ways to pressure high-profile Russian performers to speak out against their country’s controversial legislation on homosexuality.
- 23:18 19/09/2013
A Russian filmmaker said Thursday that he was seeking foreign funding for a biopic of the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, widely believed to have been a homosexual, amid ongoing controversy about Russia’s recently adopted anti-gay law.
- 22:52 19/09/2013
A US pastor who promotes a “war” against homosexuals has claimed that he helped inspire a controversial Russian law enacted earlier this year banning gay propaganda.
- 18:46 19/09/2013
The EU should tend to its own problems regarding gay rights before criticizing other countries, Russia’s human rights envoy said Thursday, after reviewing an NGO report on homophobic violence in Europe.
- 14:54 18/09/2013
Award-winning Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi voiced doubts this week that Russia’s legislative attempts to restrict minors’ access to information about homosexuality would yield the desired results.
- 22:50 17/09/2013
The mayor of Seattle has vigorously defended his participation in a protest against Russia’s recently enacted law banning the promotion of “non-traditional” relationships, during which he held a “Stop Putin” sign, in an official letter to the Russian consul-general that was also posted online.
- 05:14 17/09/2013
Openly gay British pop star Elton John believes that staging a concert in Moscow in December, rather than boycotting the venue, would better serve the interests of the Russian gay community.
- 20:41 11/09/2013
California lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a resolution urging the two largest US public retirement plans to halt investment in Russia to protest the country’s new law on homosexuality, a state senator said.
- 10:40 07/09/2013
The last thing US President Barack Obama did during his trip to Russia for the G20 summit was meet Friday with a group of Russian human rights activists, including members of the gay community, in an encounter that attendants described as symbolic, and a signal to the Russian authorities.
- 17:22 05/09/2013
A bill that proposes stripping gays with children of their parental rights was introduced in the lower house of the Russian parliament by a lawmaker from the ruling party on Thursday.
- 13:53 05/09/2013
Pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva will not be stripped of her symbolic role as an ambassador of the Youth Olympics following controversial comments in favor of Russia's law against “gay propaganda,” a source in the International Olympic Committee told R-Sport Thursday.
- 13:17 04/09/2013
President Vladimir Putin has denied the existence of anti-gay laws in Russia, pledged not to allow discrimination against homosexual athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics and said he might meet members of Russia’s LGBT community for talks on their status if they requested it.
- 10:40 03/09/2013
Europe should follow Russia’s example in adopting laws designed to preserve family life, such as its ban on propagating "homosexual propaganda" to children, a church official said last week.
- 19:56 25/08/2013
Russian Cossacks rallied, yelled homophobic slurs and sang their traditional song on Saturday in an Urals city to protest a show by their high-heeled and androgynous namesakes from a Ukrainian band.
- 22:21 23/08/2013
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is “comforted” with Russia’s reassurances that there will be “no discrimination” against people attending next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, the committee’s president said Friday.
- 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.”
- 15:23 21/08/2013
The Miss Universe Organization said it is “deeply concerned” by Russia’s anti-gay law and condemned the “violence” the country’s embattled LGBT community is facing.
- 14:39 21/08/2013
A German playwright has become the latest international cultural figure to refuse to visit Russia over the country’s controversial “gay propaganda” law, the Colta.ru cultural news website reported this week.
- 01:09 21/08/2013
It would be tough to imagine a more awkward, more delicate circumstance than the one in which two famous Russians, opera diva Anna Netrebko and world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev, now find themselves.They are both under pressure from an online petition asking the New York Metropolitan Opera to dedicate its Sept. 23 opening night gala to the support of gay people.
- 22:44 20/08/2013
A Russian Orthodox Church spokesman on Tuesday urged the global media to stop putting pressure on Russian pole vault star Yelena Isinbayeva, who has been fiercely criticized for recent anti-gay remarks.
- 11:53 19/08/2013
British Prime Minister David Cameron met informally with actor and campaigner Stephen Fry last week to discuss gay rights in Russia and Britain’s participation in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper.
- 16:35 18/08/2013
Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said Sunday the country's controversial anti-gay legislation is for the protection of its young generation, "whose psyche has not been formed," and lumped in the promotion of homosexuality with that of alcohol and drug abuse.
- 15:08 16/08/2013
Russian pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva on Friday claimed she "may have been misunderstood" over anti-gay remarks she made in defense of controversial legislation in her home country that forbids the promotion of homosexuality to minors.
- 12:23 16/08/2013
A prominent British choreographer has rejected an invitation to work in Russia because of the Kremlin’s stance on gay rights and what he called Russia’s “lethal legitimization of prejudice,” according to an open letter published in a contemporary dance magazine this week.
- 00:33 16/08/2013
A gay United States talk show host and executive producer of the hit reality TV shows “Real Housewives” and “Top Chef” has turned down the post of co-host for the upcoming “Miss Universe” beauty pageant in Moscow, over fears he will be “unsafe,” an entertainment website has reported.
- 21:57 12/08/2013
Three California state senators were set Monday to submit a resolution calling on the state’s two largest public retirement plans to halt investment in Russia in protest at Russia’s new law on homosexuality, a lawmaker and business media said.
- 21:37 12/08/2013
A week after senior US lawmaker Sen. Chuck Schumer called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “schoolyard bully,” on Monday he urged athletes marching in the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year to wave the rainbow flag to show support for gay rights and embarrass the Russian leader.
- 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.
- 19:41 12/08/2013 Originally posted at 18:34
Russia's Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, confirmed Monday that the country's controversial anti-gay law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
- 18:31 12/08/2013
Two-time Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion Edwin Moses on Monday slammed calls for the United States to boycott an Olympic Games in Russia for a second time.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 19:53 05/08/2013
More than 80 members of Congress have called on US Secretary of State John Kerry to take steps to ensure the safety of gay American athletes, staff and spectators at the winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia next year, a US congressman said Monday .
- 01:50 03/08/2013
Politics, it has been said, makes strange bedfellows. Now, as US gay rights groups protest against Russia’s new laws on homosexuality, conservatives across America have quietly begun to align themselves with the Russian government in a rare union that defies a long history of animosity.
- 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.
- 21:53 01/08/2013
A same-sex couple on Thursday asked a Moscow court to overturn as illegal a refusal by St. Petersburg authorities to register them as married, a court spokeswoman told the RAPSI legal news agency.
- 20:00 01/08/2013
The International Olympic Committee told R-Sport on Thursday that it was unmoved by comments from a Russian minister that athletes at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi would be subject to the country’s law banning so-called gay propaganda.
- 19:37 01/08/2013
US pop divas Madonna and Lady Gaga, who championed gay rights during their shows in Russia, had cultural exchange visas that “did not provide for” performing for profit, Russian prosecutors said Thursday.
- 01:17 31/07/2013
As boycotts of Russian vodka spread across the globe in protest over new Russian laws on homosexuality, US gay rights activists warn the campaign could be the first stage in a broader drive targeting Russia’s economy and image with the Sochi Winter Olympics six months away.
- 01:03 30/07/2013 Weekly column by Natalia Antonova
In Russia, it is illegal to insult a government official – though this law doesn’t make headlines very often.
- 07:36 29/07/2013
Two Russian lawmakers requested prosecutors to launch a criminal case against a prominent Russian gay rights activist over his Twitter remarks, the Izvestia daily said on Monday.
- 21:48 28/07/2013
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to the White House to impose US visa bans on two Russian lawmakers who, the plea says, were personally responsible for anti-gay legislation.
- 02:19 27/07/2013
It is perhaps the single best-known Russian brand. But as US gay groups call for boycott of Stolichnaya vodka to protest new Russian laws on homosexuality, the beverage’s owner is racing to convince them that “Stoli,” as it is popularly known, is not Russian at all.
- 19:53 24/07/2013 Originally published at 17:33
Six gay-rights activists who were detained on Wednesday for holding an unauthorized rally in central Moscow have been released, police told RIA Novosti.
- 21:33 23/07/2013
Russian migration authorities on Tuesday banned four Dutch nations from entering Russia for three years after the group was implicated in promoting homosexual relations among minors.
- 01:09 23/07/2013
“Sister city relations with St. Petersburg are listed as the first item on the agenda” at a city council committee meeting Monday evening, city clerk Chris Swope told RIA Novosti by phone.
- 18:06 22/07/2013
Four Dutch citizens detained by police during a gay rights seminar outside the northern Russian city of Murmansk appeared in a local court Monday suspected of promoting homosexual relationships among minors, according to human rights activists and local media reports.
- 15:21 09/07/2013
A Siberian regional lawmaker who has advocated the flogging of gay people in public said Tuesday that he intends to set up a group to protect Russians from homosexuals.
- 21:59 05/07/2013
British actress Tilda Swinton raised a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin to show solidarity with the LGBT community, media reports said Friday, citing her publicist.
- 18:52 02/07/2013
Four gay-rights activists were detained on Tuesday afternoon for staging an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, the city's police press service said.
- 17:52 29/06/2013
A sanctioned gay pride gathering in St. Petersburg on Saturday ended in the detention of demonstrators and violent scuffles between police and anti-gay campaigners.
- 11:42 28/06/2013
A St. Petersburg court has ordered a gay rights activist to pay compensation to the lawmaker responsible for the city’s controversial law banning “gay propaganda.”
- 20:37 25/06/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Tuesday that the rights of sexual minorities in Russia were not being violated in any way.
- 21:30 12/06/2013
Russia will not abandon plans to enact a law banning homosexual "propaganda," despite concerns raised by the German chancellor, a senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday.
- 20:17 11/06/2013
Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval for a controversial “anti-gay” bill, with only one of the 436 lawmakers present abstaining and no votes against, after a day of clashes outside the building and dozens of arrests by police.
- 17:01 11/06/2013
Protests outside the Russian parliament building turned violent on Tuesday as clashes broke out between activists for and against two proposed bills – one restricting the "promotion" of homosexuality, the other “to protect religious believers’ feelings.”
- 19:46 06/06/2013
A Communist group in southern Russia wants openly gay British pop star Elton John to wear a traditional Cossack uniform at an upcoming concert because his usual flamboyant clothing is “homosexual propaganda,” the group’s leader told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
- 17:58 19/05/2013
The European Union appealed to Russia on Sunday not to introduce a law banning so-called “gay propaganda,” the EU said.
- 15:44 17/05/2013
Moscow City Hall has refused a request by LGBT activists to hold a “Rainbow Rally” in Moscow’s Gorky Park on May 25, citing last day of school festivities scheduled for the same day.
- 15:44 16/05/2013
The organizers of several planned gay pride events have appealed to a local court over Moscow City Hall's refusal to authorize their events, activists said in a press release published on the Gayrussia.eu website on Thursday.
- 19:13 15/05/2013
The Moscow mayor’s office has refused to authorize a gay pride parade planned for May 25, and will thwart any unsanctioned action, the city's top security official Alexei Mayorov said on Wednesday.
- 01:13 09/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday denied that the rights of gay people are being violated in Russia.
- 02:45 31/01/2013
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday expressed her concern about a Russian bill making “homosexual propaganda” among minors an administrative offense.
- 09:30 26/01/2013
All those detained during an unsanctioned rally over the “gay propaganda” bill have been released, Moscow’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday.
- 20:43 25/01/2013
The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, overwhelmingly approved in its first reading on Friday a vaguely defined bill that would ban the promotion of “homosexual propaganda.”
- 20:10 24/01/2013
Pavel Samburov exudes confidence when he recalls the night in October, on International Coming Out Day, when a group of masked hoodlums stormed and ransacked a Moscow gay club.
- 17:04 22/01/2013
Supporters and opponents of a proposed federal law banning gay propaganda clashed on Tuesday outside the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the scene.
- 15:25 20/01/2013 Updated 11:50
Gay activists were beaten by an angry crowd during an authorized picket in the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia on Sunday.
- 21:24 20/12/2012
They are the people whom many Russians blame for “gay propaganda,” but at least they are not afraid to speak out on the issue.
- 11:26 08/12/2012
American pop diva Lady Gaga expressed her gratitude to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for what she perceives to be his lack of support for legislation barring “homosexual propaganda” in Russia.
- 18:40 28/11/2012
The author of a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in St. Petersburg sounded a defiant note on Wednesday after Milan suspended its sister city status with Russia’s northern capital in protest at the controversial legislation.
- 20:01 22/11/2012
US pop star Madonna did not break city laws on the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle among minors during a concert in St. Petersburg earlier this year, a court ruled on Thursday.
- 15:20 11/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti)
A St. Petersburg city court will hold a preliminary hearing on Thursday into multi-million-dollar lawsuits against US pop diva Madonna and the organizers of her recent St. Petersburg concert over an alleged violation of the city's law against "gay propaganda."
- 15:39 03/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a complaint from a human rights organization over St. Petersburg’s controversial law prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality among minors.
- 19:27 13/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Supreme Court upheld a controversial regional ban on “gay propaganda,” but said it only covers the direct promotion of homosexual relations among minors, LGBT activists said on Thursday.
- 18:33 13/09/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
A group of Russian activists resubmitted on Thursday lawsuits against U.S. pop diva Madonna and organizers of her St. Petersburg concert seeking $10.5 million in compensation for “moral damages,” a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Alexander Pochuyev, told RIA Novosti.
- 19:54 10/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
A city councilor in St. Petersburg has accused U.S. pop star Madonna of violating a controversial local law banning "homosexual propaganda" during her concert there.
- 18:38 14/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti)
An organization of St. Petersburg gay rights activists has filed a complaint against the city’s authorities with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, local media reported on Saturday.
- 16:17 06/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, July 6 (RIA Novosti)
The St. Petersburg gay and transsexual community will stage a parade despite the city council’s ban on the event, organizer Yury Gavrikov said on Friday.
- 20:40 04/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg authorities have approved for the first time an event in support of civil rights for Russia’s gay and transsexual community, an organizer said on Wednesday.
- 14:56 04/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian lawmaker who authored a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda" has threatened to fine U.S. pop star Madonna if she undresses at her upcoming performance in St. Petersburg, the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.
- 18:41 23/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 23 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg police on Wednesday said they will investigate whether the actions of the recent sanctioned gay parade in one of the city parks involved elements of gay propaganda.
- 14:39 18/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
Several dozen masked individuals attacked the first sanctioned gay demonstration in St. Petersburg and vented their anger on migrant workers after police drove the gays from the scene, Fontanka.ru said.
- 13:04 18/05/2012
A group of unknown masked individuals hurled rocks at buses at a gay-rights rally in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the International Day Against Homophobia.
- 17:24 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)
Almost half of Russians believe homosexuality is a human behavior acquired under the influence of the media, according to a poll taken by state-run pollster VTsIOM earlier this month.
- 13:53 04/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's most vocal gay rights campaigner has become the first person to be fined under a new law banning homosexual "propaganda" in St. Petersburg, the country's second city.
- 12:19 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)
Activists from a fundamentalists Russian Orthodox organization held a protest before the opening ceremony of an international gay and lesbian film festival in Moscow, the Ridus information agency reported on Thursday.
- 15:11 25/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
In a coming-out story to discourage many adolescent Russians from leaving the closet, a gay teenager in the Moscow region was put away in a drug clinic by his irate traditionalist father.
- 18:53 24/04/2012 MOSCOW, 24 April (RIA Novosti)
Gay activists plan to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow on May 27, where the main theme of the event will be bans on "gay propaganda" in Russia, the leader of the Russian LGBT movement, Nikolai Alekseyev, said.
- 18:55 23/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti)
Gay rights activists protested at the Moscow City Duma on Monday afternoon against a law banning "gay propaganda" among minors that could be imposed by the Moscow authorities.
- 18:35 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)
Most Russians have never faced “gay propaganda” but still support a ban on it, according to a poll published on Thursday.
- 18:13 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
A leader of the Russian LGBT movement, Nikolai Alekseyev, has been detained in a one-man picket in St. Petersburg protesting against a new local law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors, GayRussia.ru website reported on Thursday.
- 18:43 07/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 7 (RIA Novosti)
Two gay rights activists detained by police on Saturday for picketing against the law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors have been released after police compiled a report of administrative offence, a representative of St. Petersburg’s LGBT group said.
- 14:54 06/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 6 (RIA Novosti)
Police in St. Petersburg arrested two gay rights activists on Thursday for violating a new local law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors, police said.
- 21:11 02/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 2 (RIA Novosti)
Gay rights activists on Monday asked a court to strike down a controversial bill passed by St. Petersburg legislature and prohibiting “propaganda” of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors.
- 16:02 29/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)
A Siberian regional legislature submitted to the Russian parliament a bill to make promotion of homosexuality among minors an administrative offense, the State Duma said on its website on Thursday.
- 12:26 22/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti)
Madonna will "speak up" at her upcoming St. Petersburg show in support of Russia’s gay community, following a ban on gay propaganda imposed by the city authorities.
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