15:08 16/08/2013 
Russian pole vault great Yelena Isinbayeva on Friday claimed she "may have been misunderstood" over anti-gay remarks she made in defense of controversial legislation in her home country that forbids the promotion of homosexuality to minors.
12:23 16/08/2013 
A prominent British choreographer has rejected an invitation to work in Russia because of the Kremlin’s stance on gay rights and what he called Russia’s “lethal legitimization of prejudice,” according to an open letter published in a contemporary dance magazine this week.
00:33 16/08/2013 
A gay United States talk show host and executive producer of the hit reality TV shows “Real Housewives” and “Top Chef” has turned down the post of co-host for the upcoming “Miss Universe” beauty pageant in Moscow, over fears he will be “unsafe,” an entertainment website has reported.
21:57 12/08/2013 
Three California state senators were set Monday to submit a resolution calling on the state’s two largest public retirement plans to halt investment in Russia in protest at Russia’s new law on homosexuality, a lawmaker and business media said.
21:37 12/08/2013 
A week after senior US lawmaker Sen. Chuck Schumer called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “schoolyard bully,” on Monday he urged athletes marching in the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year to wave the rainbow flag to show support for gay rights and embarrass the Russian leader.
20:32 12/08/2013 
The bill on “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on July 29. Originally titled the bill on“homosexual propaganda,” the law criminalizes the public expression of support for “nontraditional” relationships.
19:41 12/08/2013 Originally posted at 18:34
Russia's Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, confirmed Monday that the country's controversial anti-gay law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
18:31 12/08/2013 
Two-time Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion Edwin Moses on Monday slammed calls for the United States to boycott an Olympic Games in Russia for a second time.
09:34 10/08/2013 
A former government official-turned-popular blogger reported Friday being questioned over a complaint by the lawmaker behind Russia’s notorious anti-gay legislation.
23:23 08/08/2013 
IAAF president Lamine Diack said Thursday that Russia’s controversial legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors "has to be respected" but will have no impact on the upcoming world athletics championships in Moscow.
23:34 07/08/2013 
A senior Russian Foreign Ministry official on Wednesday deflected Western criticism of the so-called anti-gay law, saying the recently adopted legislation did not violate the rights of sexual minorities in the country but was aimed at protecting minors.
19:46 06/08/2013 
The American pop star known the world over as Lady Gaga is all but taunting Russian authorities in response to reports they may prosecute her for violating the terms of her visa by giving a performance in Russia last year.
19:53 05/08/2013 More than 80 members of Congress have called on US Secretary of State John Kerry to take steps to ensure the safety of gay American athletes, staff and spectators at the winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia next year, a US congressman said Monday .
01:50 03/08/2013 Politics, it has been said, makes strange bedfellows. Now, as US gay rights groups protest against Russia’s new laws on homosexuality, conservatives across America have quietly begun to align themselves with the Russian government in a rare union that defies a long history of animosity.
01:28 02/08/2013 
The newest US senator on Capitol Hill took aim at the Russian government this week, condemning what he called the country’s “hateful” new law on homosexuality, and asking Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak for assurances that American athletes and tourists at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be safe.
21:53 01/08/2013 A same-sex couple on Thursday asked a Moscow court to overturn as illegal a refusal by St. Petersburg authorities to register them as married, a court spokeswoman told the RAPSI legal news agency.
20:00 01/08/2013 
The International Olympic Committee told R-Sport on Thursday that it was unmoved by comments from a Russian minister that athletes at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi would be subject to the country’s law banning so-called gay propaganda.
19:37 01/08/2013 
US pop divas Madonna and Lady Gaga, who championed gay rights during their shows in Russia, had cultural exchange visas that “did not provide for” performing for profit, Russian prosecutors said Thursday.
01:17 31/07/2013 
As boycotts of Russian vodka spread across the globe in protest over new Russian laws on homosexuality, US gay rights activists warn the campaign could be the first stage in a broader drive targeting Russia’s economy and image with the Sochi Winter Olympics six months away.
01:03 30/07/2013 Weekly column by Natalia Antonova
In Russia, it is illegal to insult a government official – though this law doesn’t make headlines very often.
07:36 29/07/2013 
Two Russian lawmakers requested prosecutors to launch a criminal case against a prominent Russian gay rights activist over his Twitter remarks, the Izvestia daily said on Monday.
21:48 28/07/2013 
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to the White House to impose US visa bans on two Russian lawmakers who, the plea says, were personally responsible for anti-gay legislation.
02:19 27/07/2013 
It is perhaps the single best-known Russian brand. But as US gay groups call for boycott of Stolichnaya vodka to protest new Russian laws on homosexuality, the beverage’s owner is racing to convince them that “Stoli,” as it is popularly known, is not Russian at all.
19:53 24/07/2013 Originally published at 17:33Six gay-rights activists who were detained on Wednesday for holding an unauthorized rally in central Moscow have been released, police told RIA Novosti.
21:33 23/07/2013 
Russian migration authorities on Tuesday banned four Dutch nations from entering Russia for three years after the group was implicated in promoting homosexual relations among minors.
01:09 23/07/2013 
“Sister city relations with St. Petersburg are listed as the first item on the agenda” at a city council committee meeting Monday evening, city clerk Chris Swope told RIA Novosti by phone.
18:06 22/07/2013 
Four Dutch citizens detained by police during a gay rights seminar outside the northern Russian city of Murmansk appeared in a local court Monday suspected of promoting homosexual relationships among minors, according to human rights activists and local media reports.
15:21 09/07/2013 
A Siberian regional lawmaker who has advocated the flogging of gay people in public said Tuesday that he intends to set up a group to protect Russians from homosexuals.
21:59 05/07/2013 
British actress Tilda Swinton raised a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin to show solidarity with the LGBT community, media reports said Friday, citing her publicist.
18:52 02/07/2013 Four gay-rights activists were detained on Tuesday afternoon for staging an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, the city's police press service said.
17:52 29/06/2013 
A sanctioned gay pride gathering in St. Petersburg on Saturday ended in the detention of demonstrators and violent scuffles between police and anti-gay campaigners.
11:42 28/06/2013 
A St. Petersburg court has ordered a gay rights activist to pay compensation to the lawmaker responsible for the city’s controversial law banning “gay propaganda.”
20:37 25/06/2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Tuesday that the rights of sexual minorities in Russia were not being violated in any way.
21:30 12/06/2013 
Russia will not abandon plans to enact a law banning homosexual "propaganda," despite concerns raised by the German chancellor, a senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday.
20:17 11/06/2013 
Russia’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval for a controversial “anti-gay” bill, with only one of the 436 lawmakers present abstaining and no votes against, after a day of clashes outside the building and dozens of arrests by police.
17:01 11/06/2013 
Protests outside the Russian parliament building turned violent on Tuesday as clashes broke out between activists for and against two proposed bills – one restricting the "promotion" of homosexuality, the other “to protect religious believers’ feelings.”
19:46 06/06/2013 
A Communist group in southern Russia wants openly gay British pop star Elton John to wear a traditional Cossack uniform at an upcoming concert because his usual flamboyant clothing is “homosexual propaganda,” the group’s leader told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
17:58 19/05/2013 The European Union appealed to Russia on Sunday not to introduce a law banning so-called “gay propaganda,” the EU said.
15:44 17/05/2013 
Moscow City Hall has refused a request by LGBT activists to hold a “Rainbow Rally” in Moscow’s Gorky Park on May 25, citing last day of school festivities scheduled for the same day.
15:44 16/05/2013 
The organizers of several planned gay pride events have appealed to a local court over Moscow City Hall's refusal to authorize their events, activists said in a press release published on the Gayrussia.eu website on Thursday.
19:13 15/05/2013 
The Moscow mayor’s office has refused to authorize a gay pride parade planned for May 25, and will thwart any unsanctioned action, the city's top security official Alexei Mayorov said on Wednesday.
01:13 09/04/2013 
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday denied that the rights of gay people are being violated in Russia.
02:45 31/01/2013 
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday expressed her concern about a Russian bill making “homosexual propaganda” among minors an administrative offense.
09:30 26/01/2013 
All those detained during an unsanctioned rally over the “gay propaganda” bill have been released, Moscow’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday.
20:43 25/01/2013 The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, overwhelmingly approved in its first reading on Friday a vaguely defined bill that would ban the promotion of “homosexual propaganda.”
20:10 24/01/2013 
Pavel Samburov exudes confidence when he recalls the night in October, on International Coming Out Day, when a group of masked hoodlums stormed and ransacked a Moscow gay club.
17:04 22/01/2013 Supporters and opponents of a proposed federal law banning gay propaganda clashed on Tuesday outside the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the scene.
15:25 20/01/2013 Updated 11:50
Gay activists were beaten by an angry crowd during an authorized picket in the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia on Sunday.
21:24 20/12/2012 
They are the people whom many Russians blame for “gay propaganda,” but at least they are not afraid to speak out on the issue.
11:26 08/12/2012 
American pop diva Lady Gaga expressed her gratitude to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for what she perceives to be his lack of support for legislation barring “homosexual propaganda” in Russia.
18:40 28/11/2012 
The author of a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in St. Petersburg sounded a defiant note on Wednesday after Milan suspended its sister city status with Russia’s northern capital in protest at the controversial legislation.
20:01 22/11/2012 
US pop star Madonna did not break city laws on the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle among minors during a concert in St. Petersburg earlier this year, a court ruled on Thursday.
15:20 11/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 11 (RIA Novosti)
A St. Petersburg city court will hold a preliminary hearing on Thursday into multi-million-dollar lawsuits against US pop diva Madonna and the organizers of her recent St. Petersburg concert over an alleged violation of the city's law against "gay propaganda."
15:39 03/10/2012 MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a complaint from a human rights organization over St. Petersburg’s controversial law prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality among minors.
19:27 13/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 13 (RIA Novosti)Russia’s Supreme Court upheld a controversial regional ban on “gay propaganda,” but said it only covers the direct promotion of homosexual relations among minors, LGBT activists said on Thursday.
18:33 13/09/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, September 13 (RIA Novosti)
A group of Russian activists resubmitted on Thursday lawsuits against U.S. pop diva Madonna and organizers of her St. Petersburg concert seeking $10.5 million in compensation for “moral damages,” a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Alexander Pochuyev, told RIA Novosti.
19:54 10/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 10 (RIA Novosti)
A city councilor in St. Petersburg has accused U.S. pop star Madonna of violating a controversial local law banning "homosexual propaganda" during her concert there.
18:38 14/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti)
An organization of St. Petersburg gay rights activists has filed a complaint against the city’s authorities with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, local media reported on Saturday.
16:17 06/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, July 6 (RIA Novosti)
The St. Petersburg gay and transsexual community will stage a parade despite the city council’s ban on the event, organizer Yury Gavrikov said on Friday.
20:40 04/07/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
St. Petersburg authorities have approved for the first time an event in support of civil rights for Russia’s gay and transsexual community, an organizer said on Wednesday.
14:56 04/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian lawmaker who authored a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda" has threatened to fine U.S. pop star Madonna if she undresses at her upcoming performance in St. Petersburg, the tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.
18:41 23/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 23 (RIA Novosti)St. Petersburg police on Wednesday said they will investigate whether the actions of the recent sanctioned gay parade in one of the city parks involved elements of gay propaganda.
14:39 18/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti)
Several dozen masked individuals attacked the first sanctioned gay demonstration in St. Petersburg and vented their anger on migrant workers after police drove the gays from the scene, Fontanka.ru said.
13:04 18/05/2012 
A group of unknown masked individuals hurled rocks at buses at a gay-rights rally in St. Petersburg, dedicated to the International Day Against Homophobia.
17:24 17/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti)Almost half of Russians believe homosexuality is a human behavior acquired under the influence of the media, according to a poll taken by state-run pollster VTsIOM earlier this month.
13:53 04/05/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, May 4 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's most vocal gay rights campaigner has become the first person to be fined under a new law banning homosexual "propaganda" in St. Petersburg, the country's second city.
12:19 27/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti)Activists from a fundamentalists Russian Orthodox organization held a protest before the opening ceremony of an international gay and lesbian film festival in Moscow, the Ridus information agency reported on Thursday.
15:11 25/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti, Alexey Eremenko)
In a coming-out story to discourage many adolescent Russians from leaving the closet, a gay teenager in the Moscow region was put away in a drug clinic by his irate traditionalist father.
18:53 24/04/2012 MOSCOW, 24 April (RIA Novosti)Gay activists plan to hold a gay pride parade in Moscow on May 27, where the main theme of the event will be bans on "gay propaganda" in Russia, the leader of the Russian LGBT movement, Nikolai Alekseyev, said.
18:55 23/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 23 (RIA Novosti)
Gay rights activists protested at the Moscow City Duma on Monday afternoon against a law banning "gay propaganda" among minors that could be imposed by the Moscow authorities.
18:35 19/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 19 (RIA Novosti)Most Russians have never faced “gay propaganda” but still support a ban on it, according to a poll published on Thursday.
18:13 12/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti)
A leader of the Russian LGBT movement, Nikolai Alekseyev, has been detained in a one-man picket in St. Petersburg protesting against a new local law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors, GayRussia.ru website reported on Thursday.
18:43 07/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 7 (RIA Novosti)
Two gay rights activists detained by police on Saturday for picketing against the law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors have been released after police compiled a report of administrative offence, a representative of St. Petersburg’s LGBT group said.
14:54 06/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 6 (RIA Novosti)Police in St. Petersburg arrested two gay rights activists on Thursday for violating a new local law that bans "gay propaganda" among minors, police said.
21:11 02/04/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, April 2 (RIA Novosti)Gay rights activists on Monday asked a court to strike down a controversial bill passed by St. Petersburg legislature and prohibiting “propaganda” of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors.
16:02 29/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 29 (RIA Novosti)
A Siberian regional legislature submitted to the Russian parliament a bill to make promotion of homosexuality among minors an administrative offense, the State Duma said on its website on Thursday.
12:26 22/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti)
Madonna will "speak up" at her upcoming St. Petersburg show in support of Russia’s gay community, following a ban on gay propaganda imposed by the city authorities.
16:53 19/03/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, March 19 (RIA Novosti)
Gay rights activists in St. Petersburg have sent letters to governments of U.S., EU, Australia and Canada asking them to ban entry for city officials behind the controversial gay propaganda ban.
11:23 17/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 17 (RIA Novosti)Canada's foreign ministry has warned gay travellers to "tread carefully" in St. Petersburg as the city's law banning homosexual "propaganda" comes into force, the National Post newspaper reports.
21:30 14/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti)A Sochi appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling denying registration to Pride House, a local gay movement, saying it constitutes a threat to Russia’s sovereignty, the Yugopolis news portal said on Wednesday.
16:34 12/03/2012 MOSCOW, March 12 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)A new law in Russia's second city, St. Petersburg, that imposes fines for spreading "gay propaganda" among minors should be implemented nationwide, an Orthodox Church official said on Monday, a day after the legislation was signed by the city's governor.
18:32 11/03/2012 ST. PETERSBURG, March 11 (RIA Novosti)St. Petersburg’s Governor Georgy Poltavchenko on Sunday signed off a law penalizing "the propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors."
17:18 08/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 8 (RIA Novosti)St. Petersburg’s city legislature approved on Wednesday a bill imposing fines up to $16,700 for the promotion of homosexuality.
18:07 02/02/2012 MOSCOW, February 2 (Alexei Korolyov, RIA Novosti)
The city legislature in the central Russian town of Kostroma approved a bill on Thursday which would see fines for the promotion of homosexuality.
10:40 20/01/2012 MOSCOW, January 20 (RIA Novosti)Three people who took part in an unsanctioned gay rally on Moscow’s Red Square were detained on Thursday night, police said.
18:22 26/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 26 (RIA Novosti, Alexei Korolyov)Gay rights activists staged protests in the central Russian city of Kostroma on Monday against plans to impose fines for the promotion of homosexuality.
16:04 02/12/2011 MOSCOW, December 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russia’s LGBT community on Friday called for an end to what they see as an ongoing crackdown spearheaded by the ruling United Russia party.
23:27 24/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reiterated on Thursday his opposition to the holding of gay pride events in the Russian capital.
05:56 24/11/2011 WASHINGTON, November 24 (RIA Novosti)
The United States is concerned about a bill by St. Petersburg's city legislature imposing fines for the promotion of homosexuality, a Department of State spokeswoman said.
15:20 23/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 23 (RIA Novosti, Alexei Korolyov)St. Petersburg’s city legislature has postponed debate on a bill imposing fines for the promotion of homosexuality after lawmakers failed to agree on its “legal definitions.”
17:07 18/11/2011 RIA Novosti correspondent Alexei KorolyovRussia’s gay rights activists have come under intense fire after the city legislature in St. Petersburg approved a bill to impose fines for the "promotion" of homosexuality.
18:41 01/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 1 (RIA Novosti)About 40 gay parade opponents were detained during an authorized gay rally on Saturday in downtown Moscow, the city's police said.
21:12 30/05/2011 
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland expressed regret on Monday over the crackdown on gay activists during an unsanctioned parade in Moscow at the weekend.
17:18 30/05/2011 
The French Foreign Ministry called on Russia on Monday to respect the right to freedom of expression and assembly, two days after gay activists were dispersed in the center of Moscow.
20:37 28/05/2011 
Over 30 gay parade supporters and opponents were arrested on Saturday, the city's police representative said.
14:36 19/05/2011 
Amnesty International is urging authorities in Moscow to reverse their decision to ban a gay parade.
21:06 17/05/2011 
Moscow's city government has officially rejected an application to hold a gay pride parade, the mayor's press service said on Tuesday.
16:04 26/04/2011 
The Moscow city authorities gave official permission on Tuesday to hold the first ever gay pride march in the capital, in an important victory for the country's gay community, the parade's organizer said.
19:54 16/02/2011 Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Wednesday that gay parades in Moscow are inadmissible, ruining hopes of the Russian gay community for holding sanctioned sexual minority events.