BLOG FROM MOSCOW
 07/30/2010 00:01:03 Summer Holliday season: less frequent updates on GayRussia.Ru in August
Our English news section will be less frequently updated in August. Several important campaigns await us in September. New Court cases against Russia will be transmitted to the European Court of Human Rights. We will also be preparing the meeting of the Slavic Pride organizers which will take place in autumn. GayRussia.Ru
|
07/28/2010 00:01:00 Next Sunday, Moscow Pride is in Vancouver!
The organizers of this year’s Vancouver Pride invited Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow Pride Chief Organizer to be the Marshall of their Pride. The March will take place next Sunday in the streets of Vancouver. Nikolai Alekseev will appear on the front row of the March. Photos and report will be available on GayRussia.Ru
|
07/25/2010 Jacques Teyssier, RIP
It’s a year that Jacques Teyssier the French born partner of German MP Volker Beck passed away on July 25, 2009. The activists of GayRussia.Ru remember the smile of this experienced activist who attended Moscow Pride in 2006 and 2007. A minute of silence was held this year in the memory of Jacques and in the presence of Volker Beck in the evening of May 29 after the successful first LGBT March ever held in Moscow. “In this day of remembrance, we are missing Jacques, his smile and his happiness. We will not forget his help on several issues we were working together” said Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow Pride Chief Organizer. GayRussia.Ru
|
07/15/2010 01:12:21 GayRussia now available in French language !
The French LGBT internet media, Yagg, invited Nikolai Alekseev and the activists of GayRussia to open a blog on their site. We accepted the invitation. From now, you can read our views, humor, and more at gayrussia.yagg.com GayRussia.Ru
|
07/13/2010 Moscow Pride Campaign in Romanian media
In Romania, the media Tabu.ro is publishing an interview with Nikolai Alekseev about five years of campaigning for LGBT rights in Russia. If you speak Romanian, the interview can be read HERE. GayRussia.Ru |
06/29/2010 00:00:01 St Petersburg Court scheduled hearing on Gay Pride Ban
Smolinski district Court announced today that it scheduled for July 2nd, a hearing to consider last Saturday Gay Pride ban. The organizers introduced their claim 2 days before the day of the Pride hoping the Court would consider the matter in an emergency hearing. The City Hall denied all the 11 options applied by the LGBT activists to hold their first Pride March in the City. The rally went on as planned and was broken up by the police after 10 minutes. 5 participants were detained. GayRussia.Ru |
06/27/2010 08:12:23 St Petersburg Pride host tonight the Russian Premiere of the Movie "Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride"
As part of the St Petersburg Pride, the Russian Premiere of the Canadian documentary will be screened tonight in the city center. The documentary which was shown for the first time in Eastern Europe during the Slavic Gay Pride in Minsk features the evolution of Gay Prides all around the world and emphasized on the difficulties to hold Prides in Moscow, Warsaw or Colombo compared to New York, Sao Paulo or Vancouver. The screening is presented by the St Petersburg based LGBT group 'Equality' which organized the first ever St Petersburg Pride March yesterday. Let's remind that the event was banned by the city authorities and five participants including 3 organizers were arrested and detained for 4 hours. They have been charged for holding an unsanctionned public action by the police. If you wish to attend tonight free screening of the documentary, please book your seat by email, contacts (at) spb-pride.ru For security reasons, the location will not be announced publicly. GayRussia.Ru UPDATE: Photos of the Premiere are available HERE |
06/25/2010 08:12:32 St Petersburg Pride Organizers asked a Court to consider Pride Ban before June 26
During a Press Conference which took place yesterday in St Petersburg, organizers said they filled a complain against the City Hall for not allowing their Pride March scheduled on June 26. The organizers received the written decision of the City Hall to ban their March the day before. Photos of the Press Conference can be seen HERE. The photos are showing from left to right: Organizing Committee Members, Alexander Sheremet, Yuri Gavrikov & Maria Efremenkova (Chair), GayRussia.Ru Project Head and Moscow Pride Chief Organizer Nikolai Alekseev, St Petersburg Lawyer Dmitry Bartenev and Coordinator of the group "People living with HIV" Sergey Volkov (copyright Kirill Nepomnyaschiy/GayRussia.Ru). GayRussia.Ru |
06/24/2010 03:12:12 Sign an open letter to the government representatives of Russia against discrimination of LGBT people
Please join us in signing an open letter against discrimination of LGBT people in Russia. You can sign the letter HERE. It is important to show that support to this open letter is not only coming from Russia but also from all over the world so that Russian authorities can understand the importance of respecting the rights of LGBT people. GayRussia.Ru |
06/08/2010 10:12:12 Chicago's #1 Intn'l news program about Moscow Pride today
Andy Thayer, co-founder of Gay Liberation Network, gave an interview to WBEZ91.5, Chicago #1 International news program about his experience at Moscow Gay Pride 2010 and the situation of LGBT people in Russia. Listen to the interview online HERE. Andy Thayer attended Moscow Pride in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, he was arrested for his participation in the Pride and briefly detained by the police. GayRussia.Ru |
06/04/2010 00:01:12 Next Gay Pride is St Petersburg on June 26, 2010
After Minsk, and Moscow, St Petersburg is the next city to host a Gay Pride this year in Russia-Belarus. The March is planned for June 26 and will take place in the city center however, organizers said that they are very pessimistic about the chances to have their action authorized by the city authorities. In May, both Minsk and Moscow Pride have been banned. In Minsk, 12 participants were arrested, including 7 held for 48h in custody and fined by a Court while in Moscow, the police did not manage to arrest the participants. In St Petersburg Pride, GayRussia.Ru will work once again in cooperation with UkGayNews.org.uk to broadcast a live blog from the event. GayRussia.Ru |
05/30/2010 15:23:56 Photos from Gay Prides in Moscow, Minsk, Lithuania and others
The Walk With Pride Project is run by Chad Meacham and Sarah Baxter and is a one year of documenting gay pride marches around the world to bring a spotlight on the gay rights movement. Among the Prids visited in Eastern Europe are Blatic Pride in Vilnius, Slavic Pride in Minsk, Bucharest Pride and Moscow Pride. Click HERE to access the website and see the photo galleries. GayRussia.Ru |
05/29/2010 10:00:00 Follow Moscow Pride events live from Moscow, minute by minute until Sunday
Follow Moscow Pride events live from Moscow, minute by minute until Sunday. GayRussia.Ru in cooperation with UkGayNews.Org.Uk invites you to follow Moscow Pride live from Thursday 27 until Sunday 30. Visit the blog set-up especially created for the 3-days event. Click HERE |
05/17/2010 May 17, 2010 : GayRussia.Ru celebrates its 5th birthday
The LGBT Human Rights Projects GayRussia.Ru was born on May 17, 2005. 5 years later, so much work has been done. The organization is run by a team of volunteers and all actions are self-sponsored by its members. GayRussia.Ru does not receive any institutional funding. In the last 5 years, GayRussia has been actively campaigning for freedom of assembly (Moscow Pride is the organization's most emblematic campaign), family rights (campaign for same sex marriage), for freedom of expression and against hate speech. The activists were successfull in eding the ban on blood donatio by gay people in Russia. GayRussia.Ru |
05/16/2010 2 organizers of St Petersburg Pride still detained in Minsk
Two of the St Petersburg Pride organizers arrested in Minsk during the Slavic Pride action on Saturday will be kept in custody until Monday. A representative of the police explained that they will be taken to Court together with 5 other Belarusian activists. The Police has denied the Russian Embassy access to its citizens. GayRussia.Ru |
02/11/2010 Organizers of St Petersburg Gay Pride asked for a meeting with the City Governor and Ombudsman
On February 10, St Petersburg Organizers wrote the governor of the Northern Capital, Valentina Matvienko and the Commissioner for Human Rights, Alexei Kozyrev, requesting a meeting twith City officials to discuss planned the logictiscs of the first Gay Pride planned in the city next June 26. In their letter, Members of the Organizing Committee stressed that "our event is exclusively rights-based and has nothing to do with a carnival. We want to realize our rights to march and rally which are granted by the Constitution". The group further expressed the hope that "St. Petersburg government will not allow the remake of the gay pride in Moscow which is brutally suppressed every year". The first gay pride in St. Petersburg will be held the same day as the Paris Gay Pride. GayRussia.Ru |
01/01/2010 Happy New Year from Russia !
Al the volunteers working behind GayRussia.Ru and the Moscow and Slavic Pride wish you a happy new year 2010. In the nex few days, we will publish a summary of our campaigns conducted in 2009. This new year will be a very important on for us as it will not only mark the fith anniversary of GayRussi.Ru but also the fifth attempt to host a Gay Pride in Moscow, next May 26. Finally, it is in the course of 2010 that the European Court of Human Rights is expected to give a decision against the ban of the Moscow Gay Pride 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Russian authorities! Cheers. GayRussia.Ru |
12/12/2009 12:23:12 Interview of Nikolai Alekseev with Danish radio station "DR Radio"
The Danish station "DR Radio" took an interview with Nikolai Alekseev after the Annual Prize of the Europahøjskolen has been awarded to the Organizing Committee of Moscow Pride. The interview can be replayed HERE. GayRussia.Ru |
12/04/2009 European Premiere of Gay Pride documentary featuring Moscow Pride
The European Premiere of the Canadian documentary "Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride" will take place during the Vienna Human Rights Film Festival in Austria. The crew as well as Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow Pride Chief Organizer will take part to a Q&A session after the first screening on saturday December 5 at 9pm at the Burg Kino. An additional screening will take place Sunday 13 at 6.30pm. GayRussia.Ru |
10/24/2009 23:10:12 Photos and Videos of the Canadian Marriage of Russian Lesbian Couple
On October 23, Irina Fedotova-Fet and Irina Shipitko married in Toronto. Upon their return to Russia, the couple intends to start a legal battle with the Russian authorities to get their union recognized in their home country. Photos of the marriage ceremony are available HERE. Photos of the couple with the Mayor of Toronto are available HERE. Video footage from Toronto Sun is available HERE. Video footage from City TV is available HERE. GayRussia.Ru |
Äàëåå 1 - 20 of 85
First | Prev. | 1 2 3 4 5 | Next | Last | All |
|
INTERVIEW
THEY REPUBLISH US
|
