Saint Petersburg’s Lenin District Court has overruled a long-standing prohibition preventing gay rights campaigners from holding a pride march in the city. Prominent activist Nikolai Alexeyev, who last year tried, unsuccessfully, to sue the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, for one kopek following a “homos” slur, heralded the court’s decision as unprecedented. The Russian government’s [...]
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Gay Pride Ban Illegal
Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged Gay Pride, Homophobia, Nikolai Alexeyev, Russia, St. Petersburg Pride Parade, Yuri Luzhkov on October 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Banning Witchcraft Advertising
Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged Black Magic, Faith Healing, Fortune Telling, Magic, Occult, Paranormal, Russia, Sorcery, Witchcraft, Witches, Wizards on October 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A recently approved draft law spells (spells, witchcraft, get it?) disaster for Russia’s estimated 100,000 supernatural practitioners, who will, once the bill is fully passed, no longer be able to promote their services in the mass media. Preying on the commonplace belief in the paranormal, which despite being largely suppressed during the Soviet era has [...]
Branding Bribe-Takers With The Letter “K”
Posted in Back In The USSR, tagged Bribe-Taker, Bribery, Corruption, коррупционер, K, LDPR, Liberal Democratic Party Of Russia, Russia on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Well that’s what’ll happen to those convicted of corruption in Russia if the country’s Liberal Democrats get their way. The party, which is about as liberal as the Ku Klux Klan, has submitted a bill to the State Duma aimed at tightening the Criminal Code to help tackle deep-rooted corruption in the Russian Federation. Amongst [...]
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