Sunday, January 27, 2013

NYT: President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: The Inaugural Address for his second term makes a forceful argument for a progressive agenda.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Medvedev to Address Various Scenarios at Davos

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The prime minister is visiting the forum for the third time. In 2007, he represented Russia as first deputy prime minister. He paid a second visit as president four years later. Neither …


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Friday, January 25, 2013

MAFIA STATE = HOMOPHOBIC STATE: Homophobia in Russia: News Review - 1.25.13: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police broke up a "kiss-in" protest by gay activists who scuffled with Russian Orthodox Christians outside parliament on Friday... | MOSCOW — In a sign of growing frustration, the United States is withdrawing from a panel that was set up to promote civil society under a U.S.-Russian presidential commission.

MAFIA STATE = HOMOPHOBIC STATE

 
 
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Mike Nova: 2.13.13 - via Gay Puerto Rico News Review:
 

Gay Rights Are Human Rights!

 
Gay Rights are the inseparable and very important part of Human Rights in general. In our times the degree of their advancement and the successes of World Gay Liberation Movement are directly and inextricably linked with the degree of advancement of general Human Rights and personal liberties and freedoms in various cultures and countries. The state of Gay Rights became one of the litmus tests of modern democracies and a test of the degree of general level of xenophobia and totalitarianism in any society, the Nazi Germany and the USSR being two of the best examples. If the state and the attitudes towards Gay Rights in any society are healthy (balanced, rational, unbiased and as fair and egalitarian as possible, etc.) this society itself is healthy. And vice versa.
 
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 26 February 2013 Last updated at 20:48 ET

'Gay propaganda' bill proves divisive in Russia

 
By Paul Henley BBC World Service, Voronezh
Gay rights protest in Russia The bill triggered protests in Moscow and Voronezh

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A bill banning "homosexual propaganda" has passed its first reading in the Russian parliament. It still has some way to go before it is made law, but is already proving divisive.
"I do not know any homosexuals personally, but I have seen them on TV and I saw them on 20 January in the square here in Voronezh," says Yevgeny Mazepin, a lawyer and leader of a campaign group called Special Battalion in Voronezh, a city of a million people some 500km south of the Russian capital, Moscow.
He devotes much of his professional and free time to supporting the bill, which has already passed its first reading in the lower house of parliament, by 338 votes to one.
 

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The law will make it a criminal offence to hold public events or spread information about homosexuality to minors. Russia decriminalised homosexuality in 1993 but homophobia remains strong, AP said. Russian president ...
 
 
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Clashes broke out when antigay youths (pictured) confronted participants in the banned gay-pride rally in downtown Moscow on May 28. (2011)



Russian authorities have for years denied homosexuals permission to hold demonstrations on the grounds that they would cause a violent reaction in the country, where prejudice against gay people runs deep.
Amnesty International had weighed in to urge Russian authorities to allow the May 28 gay-rights event to go ahead.
Efforts that began in 2006 to hold the event have consistently been met with official bullying, arrests, and clashes with police and antigay onlookers.
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights ruled in October 2010 that Moscow authorities had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by forbidding the rallies in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Gay-rights activists hoping that a recent change in Moscow’s political leadership — away from the famously homophobic former mayor, Yury Luzhkov, to successor Sergei Sobyanin — might help them break the cycle have been disappointed.
Russian activists vowed after receiving the authorities’ rejection letter on May 17 that they would proceed with the gay-pride event in the capital.
Homosexuality was a criminal offense in Russia until the early 1990s.
written by Andy Heil based on RFE/RL and agency reportsClashes, Arrests As Gay-Rights Activists Rally In Moscow Despite Ban – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011

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via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by Admin - News Review on 5/30/11
Малой:

Сказано не только красиво, но и очень верно.

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziLbe9gSpMY )
Сексуальность — сердцевина человеческой души.
Попирая права на сексуальную свободу ( без которой общая свобода и бессмысленна и невозможна ) ваших сыновей и дочерей, ваших братьев и сестёр полицейским сапогом и лицемерно-убого противопоставляя ей крест, вы попираете саму душу, включая и вашу собственную, и оскверняете сам крест.

( http://www.echo.msk.ru/tags/1547/archive/1.html )


http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/aleshru/779385-echo/

Сексуальность и социальность — неразделимы. Это — тот цемент и те кирпичики, которые из первобытной толпы делают общество.
Гей ( ЛГБТ ) – сообщество не нуждается ни в ваших одобрениях ни в ваших разрешениях. Оно стало одной из ведущих и значимых политических сил во всех развитых странах и неизбежно станет таковой и в России, сколько бы различные гомофобные «чучела»

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIcjWIEy1Y&feature=related )

не бесились и не исходили бессильной злобой и пеной. Эта злоба — результат их собственных комплексов и их неуверенности в своей собственной сексуальности. С организованным гей — движением как с политической силой в России рано или поздно вынуждены будут считаться и его участия, одобрения и благосклонности будут искать все ведущие политические партии и политики.
Постыдный и позорный погром гей-парада — свидетельство полутоталитарной сущности путинского режима в полусовременной России.

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via Russia and The West: News and Opinions - Россия и Запад: Новости и Мнения by Admin - News Review on 5/31/11
Малой: «Без снисходительности!» ( и без снисхождения ) > «30 мая 2011 г. | 21:20 без сакрализации» Мой уважаемый оппонент ( назовём его, условно, ради простоты и в целях

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Homophobia - News Review

 

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Gay marriage: Russia warns Britain vote could hinder adoption
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Officials in Moscow are frequently openly homophobic and the State Duma lower house of parliament approved in first reading earlier this month a new federal law that will ban "homosexual propaganda" among minors. The law is already in force in several ...

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Great Britain: the gay asylum
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In fact, it's been broken because still so many people who have suffered genuine homophobic persecution, so often these refugees are being refused asylum and being sent back. There are no calls for the assessment process at the UK Border Agency to be ...

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Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative

Catherine Ashton on LGBTI rights in Russia








The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and

Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today:








"High Representative Catherine Ashton expresses concern over the approval by the Russian Duma

of a federal law on the "propaganda of homosexuality to minors", making it an administrative

offence under Russian law.

The implementation of this law could reinforce discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals,

transsexuals and intersex people as well as all those who support them and their choices, in

particular by limiting their freedom of expression and their freedom of association and assembly.

The High Representative calls on the Russian Federation to uphold its national and international

commitments – in particular in the framework of the Council of Europe as a signatory to the

European Convention on Human Rights – to protect the enjoyment of these rights by all

individuals."

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Latitude: Is Moscow Setting the Russian Opposition's Agenda?

via NYT > Global Opinion by By MASHA GESSEN on 1/28/13
Has Putin's regime hijacked the Russian opposition's agenda by provoking it to protest increasingly absurd and aggressive laws?
 

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Gay rights protesters arrested in Russia
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MOSCOW — In a sign of growing frustration, the United States is withdrawing from a panel that was set up to promote civil society under a U.S.-Russian presidential commission.

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'Propaganda' by Gays Faces Russian Curbs Amid Unrest
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By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN. Published: January 25, 2013. MOSCOW — While Russian lawmakers debated a bill that would outlaw “homosexual propaganda,” nationalist and religious demonstrators on Friday attacked gay rights advocates who had gathered outside ...
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Russian gay rights advocates protested in Moscow on Friday as the lower house of Parliament debated outlawing “homosexual propaganda.”

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‘Propaganda’ by Gays Faces Russian Curbs

By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

MOSCOW — Police arrested about 20 people as attackers hurled eggs at gay rights advocates who gathered to protest a bill that outlaws “homosexual propaganda.”

 

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Russia set to ban 'homosexual propaganda'
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Russia's parliament backed a draft law on Friday banning ''homosexual propaganda'' in what critics see as an attempt to shore up support for President Vladimir Putin in the country's largely conservative society. Only one deputy in the State Duma lower ...

 

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via homophobia russia - Google Blog Search by admin on 1/22/13
Russia may have decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, but homophobia across the country still clearly remains strong: the Kremlin and Russian Orthodox Church are strongly pushing new anti-gay laws nationwide.

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Guidelines are being issued to the Russian army to check soldiers for intimate tattoos, but a military source denies gay men are being targeted.




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Russia votes to ban 'gay propaganda' - video
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Russia backs law banning homosexual 'propaganda'
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Russia's lower house of parliament has given initial approval to a draft law banning homosexuality being promoted among children. If approved, the law would ban events promoting gay rights across Russia. The lower house of the Russian parliament, the ...

 

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Police arrested about 20 people as attackers hurled eggs and paint at gay rights advocates who gathered in Moscow to protest a bill that outlaws “homosexual propaganda.”



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Prime Minister David Cameron’s government on Friday published a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
 
 

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Russia anti-gay law to outlaw 'homosexual propaganda' and ban public events ...
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via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by OrtChristReporter - OCR247 on 1/21/13
The legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as “propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.” It includes a ban on holding public events that promote gay rights. ... In Russia, gays have been whipsawed by official pressure and persistent homophobia. There are no reliable estimates of how many gays and lesbians live in Russia, ...
 
 

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by lskomal on 1/22/13
... was homophobic. until I read the Associated Press story reprinted in the National Post highlighting the anti-gay sentiments in that country thanks in part to Vladimir Putin's administration and the Russin Orthodox Church.

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by unknown on 1/21/13
The legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as "propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism." It includes a ban on holding public events that promote gay rights. ... In Russia, gays have been whipsawed by official pressure and persistent homophobia. There are no reliable estimates of how many gays and lesbians live in Russia, ...

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by Will on 1/22/13
The legislation, being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as "propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism." It includes a ban on holding public events that promote gay rights. St. Petersburg ... Gays have been whipsawed by official pressure and persistent homophobia. There are no reliable estimates of how many gays and lesbians live in ...

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by unknown on 1/22/13
Lawmakers, officials and Russia's dominant Orthodox church have hailed the law saying it will boost Russia's dwindling birth rates. A dozen ... Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, but homophobia remains strong.

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by Dan Savage on 1/21/13
The legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as “propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.” It includes a ban on holding public ... In the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia, gay rights activists held a protest against a nationwide homophobia bill that will be discussed in parliament soon. Several hundred people opposing gay ...

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by Small Kartoshka on 1/22/13
'Legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as "propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and ...

via homophobia russian orthodox church - Google Blog Search by Billy Hallowell on 1/22/13
The legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal nationwide to provide minors with information that is defined as “propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.” It includes a ban on .... We have way too much of it here in the U.S. with outright activism from gays being a daily thing, and all of us on the hetero side called homophobes for daring to not agree with all of the gay agenda. I'm tired of it.

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The Russian State Duma has indefinitely delayed the initial vote on a proposed homophobic censorship bill that has already sparked protests by LGBT campaigners across Russia. The Duma was to decide this month whether the draft bill, which could allow ...



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