St. Petersburg

A conservative Russian lawmaker is threatening legal action against American pop star Lady Gaga for allegedly promoting gay rights to minors during a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia on Sunday night. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- The Russian State Parliament will hear the first reading of a federal level bill that is designed after a series of regional laws banning so-called "propaganda of homosexualism." [ Read more → ]

A Russian court has dismissed a lawsuit against pop superstar Madonna, rejecting claims that her actions during a concert in St. Petersburg in August violated a local law against promoting homosexual behavior. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- Pop icon Madonna is being sued for more than $10 million by Russian activists who claimed they were offended by her support for gay rights during a recent concert in St. Petersburg, Russia. [ Read more → ]

Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg arrested two gay rights activists this week, the first such arrests for violating a controversial new law that bans the "promotion of homosexuality" to minors. The two men, Alexei Kiselyov and Cyril Nepomnyashiy, were protesting Thursday in... [ 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 → ]

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