Posts tagged Vladimir Putin

Belgian fashion designer Kristof Buntinx is launching a range of Russian-branded boxer shorts, as well as a calendar filled with gay Russian models wearing these …

Foreign Minister Bob Carr will raise Australia’s opposition to Russia’s “homosexual propaganda” law with President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Saint Petersburg. Despite …

On June 30 this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill banning the “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations to minors,” which bans any talk …

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has rejected gay actor Stephen Fry’s call for moving the 2014 Winter Olympics from Russia in a Twitter post stating …

US President Barack Obama has cancelled a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the Obama administration has been unclear on whether their primary …

Justin Koonin is a co-convenor of the NSW Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby.   On July 19, Foreign Minister Bob Carr issued a statement affirming …

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has received assurances from the “highest level” of the Russian Government that its controversial “homosexual propaganda” laws will not apply …

Gay bars in Australia and the United States are protesting Russia’s recent implementation of laws limiting the rights of LGBT people by boycotting Russian vodka and …

Dutch activists arrested in Russia under the country’s controversial new laws banning the promotion of “homosexual propaganda” to minors have returned home safely to the …

Russia’s lower house unanimously passed a law banning the promotion of homosexual “propaganda” last week, provoking international outrage. Under the new law, the government would …