Aug 01, 2007Quickie Link: Pro-Cremlin Media Attempt To Discredit Russian Gay Activists
By vanrozenheim
(Moscow, Russia) - The Gay community denies the rumors that businessman Boris Berezovsky will give 100 million dollars to gays for pride-parades in the towns of Odintsovo, Pushkino, Korolev and Lobnya near Moscow. Nikolay Alexeyev, an organizer of the gay-parade in Moscow, in his interview with Interfax on Wednesday, said this information was ‘certainly a provocation without any grounds whatsoever’. He also said ‘this attempt to involve Berezovsky and to slander LGBT in all possible ways’ was an ordinary political technology trick used before an election campaign. ‘I think we will hear much of the information of this kind before the elections. Of course, the authorities are trying to play the card of people’s hatred of the gays and lesbians. When the elections are over the situation will calm down in a way’, Alexeyev believes.
