(St. Petersburg, Russia) - Russian homosexuals rights activists said Monday some 2,000 people are expected to take part in a gay pride parade in St. Petersburg later this month despite authorities' opposition to events celebrating gay culture. Organizers of the parade said they had notified municipal authorities of their intention to stage a march along the city's main thoroughfare, Nevsky Prospekt, May 26. Officials at City Hall, however, said they had not yet received any notification. Last May, gay parades in St. Petersburg and Moscow took place despite authorities' refusal to give the go-ahead, but many of its participants were detained by police and attacked by neo-Nazi groups.
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