Russia

MOSCOW -- Russian lawmakers are considering a bill that would impose fines for spreading gay "propaganda" among minors, a measure that is similar to legislation adopted in February in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- LGBT activists in Russia are planning a campaign to boycott the Russian airline Aeroflot following a report that a gay flight attendant was forced by the airline to enter into a heterosexual marriage or face losing his job. [ Read more → ]

A small group of LGBT Russians have taken their protest against laws intended to silence their movement to every region — and on Wednesday night they produced images of their protesting arrest in front of the Kremlin. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- As tens of thousands of protesters braved sub zero temperatures across the Russian Federation last week to protest against the alleged election fraud and corruption by the Putin led government, demanding more freedom and democracy, leading Russian LGBTQ activists claimed that the opposition movement leadership excluded them. [ Read more → ]

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is to be quizzed directly tomorrow over anti-gay laws. The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, told activists on Tuesday that she would raise the discriminatory laws at the EU-Russia summit. [ Read more → ]

In November 2011, St. Petersburg shocked the world. Legislative Assembly of one of the world's cultural capitals approved in its first reading the bill which outlaws promotion of homosexuality, transsexuality and pedophilia to minors... [ Read more → ]

St. Petersburg's parliament on Wednesday said it would review a controversial bill banning so-called "gay propaganda that targets children." The law -- which has been slammed by critics as too discriminative -- has been postponed in order to clarify its wording. [ Read more → ]

Russia’s second city has passed a law banning so-called “gay propaganda.” The law, which has been rushed through the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, prohibits so-called propaganda of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and pedophilia to minors.” [ Read more → ]

Two regions of Russia – Arkhangelsk and Ryazan – have passed laws banning what they call gay "propoganda" -- laws that have been deemed constitutional by Russian courts despite the chilling of free speech and the attack on LGBT organizing, and ability to protest that they represent. Now the St. Petersburg region wants to introduce a similar law. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- Police detained dozens of anti-gay protesters and gay rights activists during a gay pride rally in central Moscow on Saturday. [ Read more → ]

Russian police have arrested at least 14 LGBT activists for holding a unauthorized gay pride demonstration in St Petersburg on Saturday. [ Read more → ]

The U.S. Department of State on Sunday issued a statement in response to the arrest of 34 people during a unauthorized gay pride cebration in the center of the Russian capital. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- Russian Interior Ministry Troops and Moscow Special Tactical Militia (police) arrested 34 people during an unauthorized gay pride parade in the center of the Russian capital Saturday. [ Read more → ]

Just weeks after organizers had been told they would be permitted to hold the first ever gay pride parade in the Russian capital, Moscow authorities on Tuesday rejected their application, citing a risk of public disorder. [ Read more → ]

Moscow authorities gave permission on Tuesday to allow the first ever gay pride parade to be held in the Russian capital. [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_10638" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Alekseyev"][/caption] Russia's top gay-rights activist says he was kidnapped and pressured by his captors to withdraw a complaint against Moscow authorities from the European Court of Human Rights. Nikolai Alekseyev resurfaced early on Saturday in Moscow after being arrested at the... [ Read more → ]

Russian police on Saturday detained at least five gay rights activists in a public courtyard in St. Petersburg, allegedly for holding an unsanctioned gay pride rally reports AFP. [ Read more → ]