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Contents:

• RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE
• WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
• 'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY
• GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY

RSIAN SOLDIERS ACCED OF TARGETED ANTI-GAY ATTACKS UKRAE

The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways.

As an unspectg dience looked on, the men hoisted a shirtls lleague above their heads, placed a ncrete block on his stomach that suggted gay people should be killed, and proceed to smash the symbolic object wh what appeared to be a sledgehammer. Not the head of the paratrooper club, who, judgg by his remarks afterward, saw nothg wrong wh the homophobic display.

WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY

They jt don't like" gay people, Andrei Palachev later was quoted as tellg reporters, g an offensive slur for gays. Homophobia, Intolerance On The Rise? The performance Yaroslavl is jt the latt example of risg homophobia and tolerance toward mory groups Rsia, a trend that appears to be worseng part bee of seemg official difference to such displays.

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia the 1990s, but LGBT people have faced varyg gre of discrimatn over the years.

Rights fenrs say bias has been enuraged by a law targetg "gay propaganda, " which Print Vladimir Put signed 2013. Sce then, LGBT-rights mpaigners and hate-crime rearchers have reported a notable uptick vlence and harassment agast gays and lbians, often om nservative activists or those pog Orthodox Christian beliefs. But the cha later pulled the ad after beg attacked by nservative activists, some of whom ced the "gay propaganda" law.

'GAY TATTOO' CHECK FOR RSIAN ARY RECS KREML'S LATT CLAMPDOWN ON HOMOSEXUALY

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GAY WAR VETERAN SPEAKS OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS UKRAE'S ARY

Back 2019, a list circulated on Rsian webs and social media featurg dozens of nam: gays, lbians, activists, and supporters of LGBT , even journalists. In the North Cs, the Rsian LGBT Network -- Rsia's largt gay and lbian support group -- said on Augt 25 that a Daghtani native had been abducted earlier this year Mosw and forcibly brought to Chechnya, where thori prsed him for rmatn on gay people the regn. Invadg Rsian soldiers have been acced of targeted anti-gay attacks agast Ukraians, cludg sexual vlence, rape, imprisonment, asslt, theft and attempted murr, openDemocracy n the war began, Ukraian LGBT human rights anisatn Nash Sv (Our World) has been speakg to victims to document the human rights vlatns by Rsian the ten s intified by Nash Sv, and exclively shared wh openDemocracy, eight are believed to have occurred the Kherson regn, which was the only regnal pal ptured by Rsian forc.

But when soldiers went through msag on Alexanr’s phone, they realised he was gay. After fdg a gay porn vio on Ilya's phone, the soldiers began punchg both men, leavg visible bis on their hands and shoulrs. Homophobic sults were also levelled at the pair, wh the soldiers askg: "Are you a uple?

Gays or real men?