Vitaly Milonov

Police are after Russia’s first legally married gay couple

Their families received visits from the police and threatening phone calls yesterday. Now their apartment is surrounded.

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Russia just had its first same-sex marriage. Now the state wants to shut it down.

The happy couple found a way to get their marriage approved in Moscow. But Putin's government isn't happy for them.

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Children can’t see Beauty and the Beast in Russia because it’s ‘gay propaganda’

A Russian lawmaker claims the movie includes "overt and shameless propaganda of sin and sexual perversion under the guise of a fairy tale."

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Anti-gay Russian lawmaker urges ban on going topless in public

The lawmaker emphasized the ban was only applicable outside beaches and other “zones of public recreation,” thereby excluding the scores of photographs depicting a shirtless Russian President Vlaimir Putin riding horses, fishing or swimming.

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Russian lawmaker: Ban Tim Cook for life, he’ll bring Ebola and AIDS to Russia

The Russian lawmaker behind the country's gay propaganda law, said Thursday that Apple CEO Tim Cook should be banned from Russia "for life" because he is gay, and could bring Ebola or AIDS to Russia.

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Russian LGBT teen advocate charged under anti-gay propaganda law

NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia -- A freelance Russia journalist was charged Friday for violating the country's anti-gay propaganda law for creating a online LGBT teen support group on Russian social media website VKontakte (vk.com).

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Russia halts international adoptions to Sweden over same-sex marriage

MOSCOW -- Russia has halted all adoptions to prospective parents in Sweden under a recently enacted law banning international adoptions to countries where same-sex marriage is legal.

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