For gay Chechens, escaping from Chechnya doesn’t guarantee safety from Chechnya’s purge of its LGBT citizens. The Russian…
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LGBT rights groups in Russia have set up hotlines to help visiting World Cup fans who run into…
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Apart from the dreadful mass arrests of 100s of allegedly gay Chechens last spring, Russia in 2017 had…
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“No protesters, no bomb threats, no provocations, and no venue cancellations.” That was one description of this year’s…
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LGBT rights activists celebrated as the annual QueerFest festival in St. Petersburg got under way without harassment.
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LGBTIQ residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, were victims of more than 100 human rights abuses last year, including…
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Police in St. Petersburg, Russia, gave LGBT demonstrators a pleasant surprise: In contrast to previous years’ harassment, police…
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Russian official have blocked plans for Pride marches at nine locations, including one in Salekhard, at the Arctic…
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QueerFest 2016, the 8th international LGBTI pride festival of Russia, has concluded on a high note, the festival…
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The government of St. Petersburg has begun routinely denying freedom of assembly for Russian LGBT activists, the LGBT…
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