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Gay rights activists protest outside NYC Russian consulate
NEW YORK — More than 100 members of the gay activist group Queer Nation and others who oppose the Russian government’s continued attacks on human rights, including the rights of LGBT Russians, marked the opening of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games with a raucous protest directly in front of the Russian consulate in New York City at noon today.
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More Olympic-linked furor over Russia’s anti-gay law ahead of Sochi games
Protesters in cities around the world targeted major Olympic sponsors Wednesday, just ahead of the Winter Games in Sochi, urging them to speak out against Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activities. Two more sponsors of the U.S. Olympic team condemned the law, but leading global sponsors did not join them.
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Putin promotes cuddly image as Sochi Olympics near
SOCHI, Russia — Vladimir Putin, rugged outdoorsman and tough-guy Russian president, promoted a cuddly image Tuesday as his Olympics drew near. Putin checked in at a preserve for endangered Persian leopards and visited a group of cubs born last summer in the mountains above the growing torrent of activity in Sochi for the Winter Games.
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Activists target Sochi with social media, boycotts in protest of Russia anti-gay law
NEW YORK — Despite seven months of international outcry, Russia’s law restricting gay-rights activity remains in place. Yet the eclectic protest campaign has heartened activists in Russia and caught the attention of its targets — including organizers and sponsors of the Sochi Olympics that open on Feb. 7.
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Russian lawmakers propose to expand ‘anti-gay’ law by removing the ‘gay’
MOSCOW – A coalition of Russian lawmakers, representing members from United Russia Party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and the Communist Party, on Friday submitted a proposal to amend the federal “anti-gay propaganda” law, expanding the measure to encompass sexual “propaganda” of any kind.
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Russian President Putin links gays to pedophiles in latest interviews
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new assurances to gay athletes and fans attending the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics next month. Yet he defended Russia’s anti-gay law by equating gays with pedophiles and said Russia needs to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality if it wants to increase its birth rate.
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Putin: Gays should feel welcome in Russia, but must ‘leave children in peace’
SOCHI, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must “leave the children in peace.”
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Ian McKellen, 27 Nobel laureates urge Putin to repeal anti-gay law
LONDON — Actor Ian McKellen and 27 Nobel laureates have written an open letter urging Russia’s president to repeal an anti-gay law and expressing their solidarity with critics of the legislation.
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Putin rescinds blanket ban on demonstrations at Sochi Olympics
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has rescinded a blanket ban on demonstrations in and around the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Sochi.
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Putin defends Russian conservative values, anti-gay laws
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin used his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday to defend conservative values, referring obliquely to his government’s anti-gay stance as he chided the West for treating “good and evil” equally.