Russian nationalists, communists and religious believers gathered in Moscow on Saturday to denounce plans for a Gay Pride march, as gay activists prepared to lobby the mayor to lift a ban on the event.
Popularity: 9% [?]
May 26, 2007Moscow mayor, Yury Luzhkov, wants to crack down on outsiders, whom he says are responsible for 40 percent of the Russian capital’s crime, the UPI news agency reported Tuesday.
Popularity: 2% [?]
April 4, 2007The 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: 2% [?]
March 21, 2007Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly spoke against homosexuality calling it “wrong and unusual” in a London news conference attended by his Paris and Berlin counterparts, both of them gay, the Bloomberg.com web-site reported March 1.
Popularity: 6% [?]
March 2, 2007The organizers of Moscow’s banned gay parade on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city’s mayor, Yury Luzhkov, for publicly calling the parade “a satanic act”.
Popularity: 4% [?]
February 26, 2007Forbes Russia editor-in-chief said Monday he had withdrawn his resignation after the parties to the last week’s conflict came to term over the December issue.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: 2% [?]
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