(Moscow, Russia) - Russian gay activists vowed Saturday to hold a demonstration in Moscow despite a ban by the city authorities, a year after a similar attempt led to arrests by police, attacks by right-wing nationalists and verbal abuse by pensioners. The Sunday demonstration is to mark the 14th anniversary of Russia's decriminalization of homosexuality. But despite the decriminalization, intolerance of homosexuaity remains high in Russia; it is denounced by the dominant Russian Orthodox Church and President Vladimir Putin in his annoual news conference implied that gays were undermining the country by not procreating.
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