Comments on: LGBT Russians Peacefully March in St. Petersburg, other cities

By: JJQR

JJQR — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:23:47 +0000

Tatjana : Your English is actually pretty good!

By: JJQR

JJQR — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:22:31 +0000

St. Petersburg (the great city of Dostoevsky) has always had the coolness factor over Moscow.

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By: Tatjana

Tatjana — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:24:29 +0000

I’m Russian and I participated in the RainbowFlash in Saint-Petersburg. You know, I can’t understand, why Nikolaev every year tries to march illegally in Moscow? To be arrested? To find a subject to discuss in Europe?

There are many actions in Petersburg now, peaceful and legal. Because our leaders try to come out but not to be famous in european eyes.

Sorry for my terrible english)

By: quo III

quo III — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:53:36 +0000

Ken,

There’s no reasons for “all Russians” to hang their heads in shame at this, given that they aren’t collectively responsible for it. Patronizing the Russian people isn’t helpful.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:19:46 +0000

All Russians, and Muskovites in particualr, should hang their heads in shame at the heavy-handed treatment dished out to a few dozen people staging a peaceful protest to bring attention to the lack of human rights in Russia. The treatment and persecution of gay citizens, who work hard and pay taxes, just like any other Russian citizen, is shocking. It sends a loud message to the world that Russian pursues a policy of regilious bigotry and neo-Stalinism which has no respect for the human rights of its citizens. Has Russia not learnt from its history of the 20th century? The twin evil gulags of neo-fascism and religious intolerance are a blight on the whole of Russia. This kind of behaviour only intensifies the world’s perceptions that Russia is a backward country and not worthy of being counted among the civilised countries of the world.

By: GreenEyedLilo

GreenEyedLilo — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:32:18 +0000

I am so, so, so glad that Russian LGBTs in other cities had a much better experience, and so glad that the ones arrested in Moscow were released! My wife was so broken up by the events in Moscow yesterday, and so was her best friend. (A bisexual man who grew up in Moscow.) But there are 11 time zones in Russia, and I’m grateful that not all are such horrific places for the LGBTs there. The balloons do have a beautiful positive energy! I hope that energy spreads to Moscow.

By: Swampfox

Swampfox — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:33:29 +0000

I don’t know how the political system works in Russia, do the people really get to elect their mayors? If they do, I would hope that the Moscow mayor is voted out of office, soon. That the press gave today’s event some favorable air time increases the odds that governmental opinion will change.