Sources: BBC
Russian media reports that police raided the publisher office of Eksmo Publishing House yesterday and arrested several of its employees, accusing them of spreading "LGBTQ+ extremism". 2025-05-15
Prague removes the controversial monument of Soviet General Ivan Konev, prompting anger from the Russian Embassy and Czech President Milos Zeman. Prague 6's local assembly voted to remove the Soviet-era monument in 2019. 2020-04-3
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Russian airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians, including three children, as they cross the Euphrates river near the ISIL-held city of Mayadin in eastern Syria while fleeing the village of Mahkan. 2017-10-6
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia's gay propaganda law encourages homophobia, reinforces prejudice and violates the right to freedom of speech. 2017-06-20
Russian authorities arrest more than 100 gay men in Chechnya, including television personalities and religious figures, for "nontraditional sexual orientation." The "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper reported that three of the arrested men have been killed, while others reportedly were released for family honor killing. Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov's spokesperson said this report contains “absolute lies and disinformation” since there are no homosexuals in Chechnya. 2017-04-3
Russia starts limiting its import of meat from Moldova as a reaction to the European Union Association Agreement signed on 27 June. 2014-07-3
LGBT sportspeople, such as tennis player Billie Jean King and ice hockey player Caitlin Cahow, are to represent the United States in Sochi as a protest against the treatment of LGBT people in Russia. 2013-12-18
Dozens of people are arrested at a gay pride parade in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. 2013-06-29
The Russian capital Moscow is to allow its first gay pride rally in May. 2011-04-26
At least 16 people are killed and 98 injured in an apparent suicide bombing in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz. 2010-09-9