Last week, a St. Petersburg court in a closed door hearing, designated a leading Russian LGBT rights group, Coming Out, as an “extremist organization.” ...

It's one of three organizations now taken to court by Russia's Justice Ministry.

Andrey Kotov was described by associates as a keen inventor with a love of animals, who combined these passions as a designer of aquariums. The businessman, 48, also operated a tourism agency Men ...

A Russian court has fined U.S. tech giant Apple 10.5 million roubles ($130,483) in four separate administrative cases, three of which pertained to breaches of Russian rules on what Moscow calls LGBT ...

It was a bold move. One that was dangerous in Russia, a country known for being one of the most homophobic in the world, and, eventually, led a woman to flee with her family to the United States.

On July 21, Russian authorities detained and questioned four Dutch nationals who were working on a documentary film about lesbian, gay, transgendered and bisexual townspeople in the northwestern city ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian court on Tuesday fined U.S. tech giant Apple six million roubles ($76,510) for violating Russian rules on what Moscow calls "LGBT propaganda," the state TASS news agency ...

Following passage last month of a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations,” Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a bill yesterday that prohibits adoption by same-sex foreign ...

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Russia is selective about what kind of attention it wants as the Sochi Winter Olympics begin this week. Towards the top of the "do not want" list, to be sure, is the country's deteriorating record on ...