5 February 2014 5:44 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
With the Winter Olympics starting in Sochi on Friday (February 7), we're all going to be seeing a lot more of Russia on the TV over the next couple of weeks.
However, what won't be shown while we're scratching our heads at the curling is the brutal treatment of the Lgbt community in Russia, where some gay people are currently being hunted down like animals.
Liz Mackean's new Dispatches documentary, Hunted, is a bleak and brutal depiction of what life is really like in Russia for the gay community right now. Airing tonight on Channel 4, it's a documentary that will make British viewers extremely uncomfortable.
"Only 1% of the gay population dares to live openly," says Mackean. "I think it just shows where the problem is. There is a problem with visibility. Most Russians don't know a gay person and all those old problems and connections with pedophilia and homosexuality being a danger to children, »
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