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Human rights activists target Russian anti-gay law at G20 protests
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Spaced out along St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare, about a dozen human rights activists staged individual protests to attract the attention of leaders of the world’s biggest economies to human rights violations in Russia.
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Obama to meet with human rights, LGBT activists while in Russia
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with several LGBT and human rights activists during his trip to Russia for the G20 conference, a White House source confirmed Monday.
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Lansing, Mich., votes to end ‘sister city’ relationship with St. Petersburg, Russia
LANSING, Mich. — The city council in Lansing, Mich., on Monday voted unanimously to adopt a resolution calling for an end to its “sister cities” relationship with St. Petersburg, Russia, over country’s anti-gay “propaganda” law.
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Dozens arrested at ‘unauthorized’ gay pride rally in Russia
MOSCOW — Russian police have arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a rally declared illegal under a new law against “gay propaganda.”
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Lady Gaga accused of promoting gay rights at concert in Russia
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.
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Russian Parliament to consider adopting national anti-gay legislation
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.”
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Russian court dismisses lawsuit against Madonna for promoting homosexuality
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.
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Anti-gay Russians sue Madonna for $10.5 million for ‘promoting homosexuality’
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.
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Russian gay rights activists arrested for violating ‘gay propaganda’ law
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 front of St Petersburg’s Palace of Youth Creativity, a government-run […]
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Nureyev’s destiny for 21st century St. Petersburg
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…