, by GESSEN Masha
I can think of only two times it’s happened to me: I read a news story, or even a series of stories, and thought that it contained such extreme exaggerations that it had to be, essentially, false. I could enumerate my reasons, which were similar both times: the stories came from the Russian (...)
, by LUHN Alec
Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic.
Five LGBT activists were detained in Moscow on Thursday while trying to submit a petition signed by two million people calling for an (...)
, by WALKER Shaun
Russian newspaper says it has evidence that at least three men have been killed in ‘prophylactic sweep’ in Chechnya.
Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have launched an anti-gay campaign that has led to authorities rounding up dozens of men suspected of being homosexual, according (...)
, by WALKER Shaun
Up to several hundred gay men are feared to have been rounded up and some killed in ultra-conservative Russian republic.
At least once a day, Adam’s captors attached metal clamps to his fingers and toes. One of the men then cranked a handle on a machine to which the clamps were linked with (...)
, by CHAN Sewell, DUFFY Nick, MILLIKEN Alice
Reports that authorities in Chechnya have been rounding up gay people have been verified by human rights groups.
Early reports emerged last week that gay people are being targeted in the region , which is part of Russia but has substantial autonomy.
Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported (...)
, by ELDER Miriam
Law will make it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships and to distribute gay rights material.
Russia’s parliament has unanimously passed a federal law banning gay “propaganda” amid a Kremlin push to enshrine deeply conservative values that critics say has already led to a sharp (...)
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