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A gay Rsian man is hidg after Rsian thori opened a crimal se over a YouTube vio which he was terviewed by children, a se that has drawn attentn om human-rights activists.

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GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

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A gay Rsian man is hidg after Rsian thori opened a crimal se over a YouTube vio which he was terviewed by children, a se that has drawn attentn om human-rights activists.

Maxim Pankratov told CNN he was facg threats and a potentially lengthy prison sentence for appearg the vio discsg his life as an openly gay man Rsia. The vio, origally posted on the Rsian-language “Real Talk” YouTube channel, featured four children terviewg Pankratov, 22, about his life and his inty as a gay man.

WHO CONTROLS A GAY RSIAN TEEN-AGER’S STORY?

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The format of the vio is simple: Pankratov and his terviewers face each other chairs agast a blue background, and the children ask simple qutns: “How did you know you were gay?

VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY

Human Rights Watch released a seri of vios the group says shows that the beatg and abe of gays has bee wispread. One 17-year-old om Sochi who was btalized says Rsia's new anti-gay propaganda law has been taken as enuragement by anti-gay groups. Mark Phillips reports. * jose manuel reyes gayosso *

“It was about what ’s like to be a gay man Rsia and how I live. Rsia has a rerd of official hostily toward gay rights. ” The law – which prohibs public discsn of gay rights and relatnships anywhere children may be prent – has drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn.

In 2017, a European urt led that the law was discrimatory, promoted homophobia and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights.

Rsian thori have barred and broken up gay-pri march. In the Rsian republic of Chechnya, for stance, wns and victims me forward to make public allegatns of mass arrts and torture of gay men.

‘OUR MERE EXISTENCE IS ILLEGAL.’ AS MOSW TOUGHENS ANTI-GAY LAW, LGBTQ RSIANS FEAR FOR THE FUTURE

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“This se is a particularly disturbg example of thori g Rsia’s ‘gay propaganda’ law as a tool for discrimatn and timidatn, ” said Kyle Knight, senr LGBT rights rearcher at the advocy group Human Rights Watch.

“The pernicns of the ‘gay propaganda’ law apparently knows no boundari. At a lol church, he met a gay uple, two elrly ary veterans who were raisg two adopted boys.

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