(Russia) - An appeal by the organisers of this year’s Moscow Gay Pride was dismissed today. The Moscow City Court threw out the appeal, ruling that the decision of the lower Taganski district court that the ban by Moscow authorities on pickets as part of May’s Moscow Pride was lawful. Two pickets in support for tolerance and respect of the rights and freedoms of homosexual people in Russia were offered by the organisers of the Gay pride as an alternative to the march on the same day which was banned by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
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