Topic: Yuri Luzhkov

Moscow authorities on Tuesday agreed to allow for the first time a Gay Pride march to proceedMoscow authorities on Tuesday agreed to allow for the first time a Gay Pride march to proceed, The Moscow News reported. Gay rights activists were jubilant ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A small group of activists held the first gay rights demonstration in Moscow without hindrance from city authorities on Friday, saying there had been a change of policy since the dismissal of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.Luzhkov, an opponent of gay ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov vowed on Monday to 'crack down' on gay parades Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov vowed on Monday to crack down on gay parades, UKGayNews.org.uk reported. For several years, Moscow has experienced unprecedented pressure to conduct a gay pride parade, ...

Resplendent in pink satin and ostrich feathers, a drag queen runs through a tumbledown Russian village, miming to Gloria Gaynor's " I Will Survive".Just one of the startling scenes from "Jolly Fellows" (Veselchaki) -- the first mainstream Russian film about drag queens ...

Russian gay activists say they are disappointed with Secretary Clinton for not raising the issue of anti-gay sentiment in Russia Russian gay activists said Wednesday they were disappointed with U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for not raising the issue of anti-gay ...

A Russian court on Friday dismissed a long-shot libel suit filed by gay activists against Moscow's veteran mayor in a ruling that they described as a blow to human dignity in Russia.The suit had been filed after Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, speaking ...