Topic: Russia

Police detain anti-gay protesters at Russia's first-ever sanctioned gay rights rallyMoscow police have detained several gay rights opponents at the first sanctioned gay rights protest in years, marking a sharp reversal of policy after last week's dismissal of the city's notoriously intolerant ...

Russian police disperse gay rally in Moscow, detain at least a dozen protestersPolice dispersed a gay rally Tuesday and detained at least a dozen protesters in the Russian capital.The two dozen demonstrators had been protesting the policies of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, ...

Prominent Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev, who was abducted Wednesday by security officials, said the ordeal was 'really frightening'Prominent Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev (also spelled Alexeyev), who was abducted Wednesday by security officials, said the ordeal was “really frightening,” the AP ...

Russian gay rights activist says he was seized by agents, pressured to withdraw court casesA prominent Russian gay rights activist who vanished from a Moscow airport this week said Saturday he is back in the capital after being held for more than ...

Prominent Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev was arrested Wednesday at Moscow's Domodedovo airportProminent Russian gay activist Nikolai Alekseev (also spelled Alexeyev) was arrested Wednesday at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, Russian news agency Interfax reported. Alekseev is the organizer of Moscow's Gay Pride Parade. ...

Six gay activists were arrested Saturday attempting to hold an unsanctioned gay pride rally in St. Petersburg, Russia.Six gay activists were arrested Saturday attempting to hold an unsanctioned gay pride rally in St. Petersburg, Russia. About 30 gay rights activists gathered in ...

Five gay rights activists were arrested on Saturday at an unsanctioned gay pride protest in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, an AFP correspondent reported.Using similar tactics to a gay rights protest in Moscow last month, the protestors tried to outwit the ...

Russian gay rights activists detained at St. Petersburg museum after unannounced rallyRussian police on Saturday detained several gay rights activists in a public courtyard within St. Petersburg's noted State Hermitage Museum, apparently for holding an unsanctioned rally.Two dozens activists unfurled banners and ...

Gay activists in Moscow staged a brief gay pride parade Saturday in defiance of city officials who have banned such demonstrations since 2006 Gay activists in Moscow staged a brief gay pride parade Saturday in defiance of city officials who have banned ...

Around 30 international gay rights activists held a brief protest on a central Moscow street Saturday, flouting the city authorities' ban on a gay pride event in a "cat and mouse game" with police.The activists, led by Russian Nikolai Alexeyev and also ...