News+ Treasury Sanctions Serious Human Rights Abusers on International Human Rights Day. UK announces travel bans and asset freezes for human rights violators. Interview with director David France about his documentary “Welcome to Chechnya”. On Putin’s birthday, Pussy Riot members hung rainbow flags on the buildings of the FSB and the presidential administration. Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod edition of KozaPress, set herself on fire at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. TASS reported that the investigative committee plans to arrest gays who used the services of surrogate mothers. In Yekaterinburg, Cossack patrols stop passers-by under the pretext of fighting “gays” The city simultaneously hosts a fair of family values and a festival of an LGBT center. They’re Killing Us: An Introduction to Violence on Grindr. “I keep waiting for my son.” Singer Zelimkhan Bakayev was kidnapped in Chechnya three years ago. Pride Week 2020 without canal parade: ‘But the rainbow flag flutters here every day’. Foreign Ministry sends US, UK and Canada protest notes over LGBT flags on embassy buildings. They complained to Putin about ice cream with a rainbow because of the “propaganda” of LGBT people. Violence and insult to the LGBT flag in Russia. (Video). Russian singer against gays (Video with ENG sub). Police in Russia called a black man a monkey (video with ENG subtitles). Homophobic video about elections in Russia. (ENG subtitles). Video for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The Netherlands is again out of the top 10 LGBTI rights. #SilenceDay2020 will be held online. Levada Center: one fifth of Russians believe that homosexuals “should be eliminated”. A report by the US State Department on human rights has been published. Russia violates LGBT rights. Marvel’s new film called to boycott because of two gay kiss scene. Human Rights Watch criticized amendments to the Constitution of Russia. Gay.ru complains about blocking to the European Court of Human Rights. Moscow jury acquits suspect of murdering gay man coming home from nightclub. In Grozny attacked the columnist for the Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina. A native of Chechnya complained about the “expulsion of the genie” with a stick and tranquilizers.
