Russia
ILGA-Europe Annual Review
Legal summary
ILGA-Europe members
- Coming Out Saint Petersburg LGBT Organization
- Gay Youth Right Defense Organization
- Murmansk regional public organization
- Raduzhny Dom
- Rainbow Association Moscow
- Rakurs - Arkhangelsk regional non-governmental LGBT organization
- Russian LGBT Network
- Russian LGBT Sport Federation
- Russian National GLBT Center TOGETHER
- The St.Petersburg LGBT Human Rights Center - "Krilija (Wings)”
Pride Events
Events
- RainbowFlash2010 - IDAHO 2010
- The International Festival of Queer Culture 2009 - St. Petersburg, Russia
- Day of Silence
- Moscow – Teheran : Solidarity with Iran Queers
- IDAHO Moscow World Conference
- "Nordic Rainbow Lights in Moscow - A cultural & Human Rights Festival"
- Moscow Gay-Lesbian Culture Festival "Rainbow Without Boundaries". 1-5 may, 2006
- MOSCOW LGBT Pride & Festival, May 2006
ILGA-Europe news and articles
- Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe continues to challenge Russia over the Moscow Prides case and “propaganda for homosexuality” laws (28/03/2013)
- ILGA-Europe extremely concerned by approval of Russian draft law to ban “homosexual propaganda” (25/01/2013)
- Russia: human rights groups hail historic decision on homosexual propaganda ban (27/11/2012)
- Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe reviews Russia's progress on freedom of assembly (30/10/2012)
- Violent attacks on IDAHO events in St Petersburg and Tbilisi (18/05/2012)
- ‘Propaganda’ law passed in the final hearing in St. Petersburg (29/02/2012)
- ILGA-Europe's statement on St Petersburg’s ‘propaganda’ law adopted today in 2nd reading (08/02/2012)
- ILGA-Europe’s Statement on proposed 'propaganda' law in St. Petersburg (15/11/2011)
Resources
- ‘Homosexual Propaganda’ Laws in the Russian Federation: Are They in Violation of the European Convention on Human Rights?
- Russia - Monitoring implementation of the CoE Recommendation
- Statement delivered to the Russian Mission to the EU, December 2012 (Russian)
- Statement delivered to the Russian Mission to the EU, December 2012 (English)
- ILGA-Europe Annual Review 2011 on Russia
- Draft in English of the proposed 'propaganda' law in St. Petersburg
- Coming Out booklet
- Shadow report - 'Discrimination and violence against lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people in Russia' - 2010 prepared by the Russian LGBT Network
Links
- Gcasta Siberia (Tomsk)
- The Blog of Vlad Ortanov
- Russian LGBT Network
- FREE Dowload of the "Moscow Gay Pride" Official Anthem
- Official site of the "Moscow Gay & Lesbian Pride Festival", a cultural and political event
- Moscow Gay-Lesbian Culture Festival "Rainbow Without Boundaries"
- "Drugie Saint Petersburg"
- Legal Information News Agency "LINA" / Charity Fund "Rainbow"
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22/05/2013
Patriarch Kirill tells CoE's secretary general same-sex marriage sinful
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28/03/2013
Putin moves to ban gay foreign couples from adopting Russian orphans
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25/03/2013
Russia: Moscow to create database of Russian children with foreign families – Lavrov
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26/02/2013
Russia: No basis for 'homosexual propaganda' in int'l law - Lavrov
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26/02/2013
Russia: Deputy Moves to Suspend Child Adoptions By French Over Gay Marriage Law
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21/02/2013
Russian official calls lesbians who adopted Russian child a 'freaky family'
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12/02/2013
UN rights experts advise Russian Duma to scrap bill on ‘homosexuality propaganda’
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12/02/2013
Assembly rapporteur calls on Russian Duma not to support law banning ‘gay propaganda’
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12/02/2013
Russian Duma gives first nod to nationwide ban on gay propaganda
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