#MOSCOW #RUSSIA - Vitaly Milonov, 39, was the main driving force of the ban on “gay propaganda” among minors introduced in St. Petersburg in 2011 and later adopted on the federal level despite international outcry. The former hippie-turned-ultraconservative Christian has also unsuccessfully sought to have pop stars Madonna and Lady Gaga punished for supporting gay rights at their Russian shows – which, he said, amounted to “gay propaganda.” A church was fire-bombed in Russia’s fifth-biggest city of Nizhny Novgorod in June. Local police blamed the attack on two activists of the radical leftist organization Left Front, whose leadership said that, despite the group’s staunchly atheist ideology, it did not endorse the burning of churches. Brooke Cerda Guzmán
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:03:29 +0000
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