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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. tweet Andrei Kotov is handcuffed and led out of the courtroom as filmed by several journalists as well as prosecutor Shcherbakova ...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has accused Ilya Zhuravlyov, the director of two medical centers in the Ulyanovsk region, of promoting Satanism as part of a broader campaign to spread LGBT ...

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.

Moscow police on November 30 raided several bars and nightclubs in the Russian capital as part of the government’s crackdown on “LGBTQ+ propaganda,” state media reported. The Russian state-run TASS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Apple logo at an Apple store in Paris (Reuters) -A Russian court has fined U.S. tech giant Apple 10.5 million roubles ...

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 ...