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Thursday, 24 April 2008

Mayor bans "satanists"

The Moscow mayor, who's branded gay people as "satanic", has banned Gay Pride in the city for the third year in a row.

But activists could be taking scores of cases to the European Court of Human Rights after last night's announcement from the Moscow authorities that they won't allow "conduct of the unsanctioned public actions by sexual minorities" during the May holidays.

Apparently, gays want to “bring dissonance intentionally to disrupt historic holiday” and are “trying to pressure their rules and visions on the society”.

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