Russian Federation

For just over six months, she has been imprisoned in the Russian Federation for possession of a vape pen that held a small amount of cannabis oil.

Ukrainian LGBTQ activists have described the climate as pre-Stonewall.

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.”

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 […]

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.

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.