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The director of a Russian travel agency arrested last month on charges of international LGBT extremism died yesterday while in custody in Moscow, OVD-Info reports. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ ...
Facing the prospect of 15 years in prison for her posts and terrified her true identity would come to light, Khvylka fled.
Foreign correspondent James Kirchick took over a Russia Today segment on Bradley Manning Wednesday morning, using his time to denounce Russia’s recent slate of anti-LGBT laws. “You have twenty-four ...
A Russian court has fined U.S. tech giant Apple 10.5 million roubles ($130,483) in four separate administrative cases, three of which pertained to breaches of Russian rules on what Moscow calls LGBT ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court on Tuesday fined U.S. tech giant Apple six million roubles ($76,510) for violating Russian rules on what Moscow calls "LGBT propaganda," the state TASS news agency ...
VK and the Russian president’s press office did not reply to requests for comment. In comments carried by the state news ...
It was a bold move. One that was dangerous in Russia, a country known for being one of the most homophobic in the world, and, eventually, led a woman to flee with her family to the United States.
On July 21, Russian authorities detained and questioned four Dutch nationals who were working on a documentary film about lesbian, gay, transgendered and bisexual townspeople in the northwestern city ...
In the second segment of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the ABC host pressed Putin on the controversy over Russia’s heightened anti-LGBT laws, which have led ...
Two years after the anti-gay purges in Russia’s Chechnya region began, Russian authorities still have failed to provide justice for the victims, Amnesty International said yesterday. “The Russian ...
Dozens of LGBT people have allegedly been rounded up and tortured. GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years. He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a ...