Moscow Pride: Oh Those Russians!

18 gay rights activists were arrested at Moscow Pride yesterday.
As per usual there were counter-protests and attacks by Neo-Nazis and Orthodox Christians - with some say some collusion with the police.
Live blog, photos and video on UK Gay News.
The rally had - for the sixth time - been denied a permit by the Mayor of Moscow, despite Russia having been condemned and fined by the European Court of Human Rights last year for banning gay parades in Moscow.
Google News Search brings up 79 news stories about this from around the world.
Coverage in the UK papers today - zero.

Update: Brilliantly mad - and hilariously badly translated - anti-gay German Christian report here.
"Homo foreign criminals arrested. In Moscow on imported gay sex fiend organized provocation of brave Christians have been successfully defeated..."

Nikolai Alekseev: "My Abduction"

Courtesy of UK Gay News, Russian gay activist, Nikolai Alekseev, gives an acount of his very strange disappearance last week...

[The photo was taken at Moscow Pride 2009]

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Fagburn very much likes this website, GayEcho Belgrade, from Serbia, although he doesn't really have any idea what they're writing about, and it could just possibly be nonsense on a stick.
Fagburn has a bit of a thing about the former Yugoslavia.
You know, Tito, the noble partisans, the non-aligned movement, workers' control, us bombing the fuck off out of them just cause they didn't bow down and worship the free market and that.
So just the idea of people being gay and Serbs thrills me.
Croats I'm less keen on.
Bosnians? Meh!
No wonder they had a civil war.
But I also like the way Serbo-Croat looks; "Boj Džordž večeras u Novom Sadu."
That's "Boy George comes to Novi Sad", I think.
It's somewhere in the north, and he's a much under-rated singer.
GayEcho appear to be having some trouble with Wikipedia, and their page keeps being taken down, the ever useful UK Gay News report, though I'm not quite sure when this was as there doesn't seem to be any mention of it on their own site.
Anyway, it wouldn't surprise me - Wikipedia is an idiots' paradise.