Vitaly Milonov

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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.