Yury Luzhkov

Human Rights Activists Urge Moscow Mayor to Allow Gay Parade

The Moscow authorities should give the go-ahead to gay pride parades, Alison Gil the head the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch group, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying on Tuesday.

Popularity: 6% [?]

March 21, 2007

Forbes Russia Says Baturina Incident Settled, Issue Printed Unchanged

Forbes Russia editor-in-chief said Monday he had withdrawn his resignation after the parties to the last week’s conflict came to term over the December issue. The issue will be printed ’in its original form,’ the magazine’s publisher said Friday, a day after lawsuit threats prompted the destruction of thousands of copies of the magazine and its editor’s resignation.

Popularity: 7% [?]

December 4, 2006