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Queerussia joins petition to Apple and Tim Cook on Euroset’s Ivan Okhlobystin...
On January, 5, several Russian LGBT organizations formed a coalition and wrote an open letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, regarding Apple’s contract with “Euroset” infamously known mobile handset...
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On Christmas day Ivan Okhlobystin asks Putin to re-criminalize homosexuality...
On January, 7, the day of the Russian Orthodox Christmas, Ivan Okhlobystin, sitcom actor and creative director for the Euroset mobile handset retailer published an open letter to the President...
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Euroset CEO: Okhlobystin stays; If I’d shout ”I’m against gays”, our sales in...
On January 9, Alexander Malis, CEO of the largest Russian mobile handset retailer Euroset in an interview to RainTV strongly refused to fire creative director Ivan Okhlobystin for his ongoing...
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LEAKED VIDEO: Euroset CEO urges staff to ”shove a bone up competitors’ ass”
In a video addressed to the Euroset employees on the New Year’s Eve Alexander Malis sets a strategic goal for the rest of 2013 and uses a derogatory sexual metaphor and demonstration of meat and bone...
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BREAKING NEWS: Okhlobystin quits Euroset
In his twitter Euroset creative director Ivan Okhlobystin announced he quits the company. Okhlobystin’s homophobic remarks he made in December, 2013 stirred controversy in Russia and abroad....
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Okhlobystin wants to ”cure” his gay stylist ”forcibly”
Russian TV sitcom actor Ivan Okhlobystin has left his job at Euroset mobile handset retailer and started working as a creative director for a Russian clothes retailer. Max Gor, Okhlobystin’s stylist,...
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German business partner outraged by Okhlobystin’s hate speech
German clothing manufacturer Heinrich Obermeyer, business partner of Russian company Baon, is outraged by the appointment of Ivan Okhlobystin as Baon’s creative director. “I was really shocked of what...
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EXCLUSIVE: Gay activist sues homophobic Russian actor for hate speech
On January 27, a telegram was sent to Russian TV sitcom actor Ivan Okhlobystin summoning him to the court hearing as a defendant in Tushino District Court of Moscow. Charges stem from Okhlobystin’s...
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Celebrity ex-priest faces lawsuit over anti-gay statements
An LGBT activist is suing controversial Russian celebrity Ivan Okhlobystin, demanding an apology and monetary compensation over a speech in which the former priest said gays should be “thrown in a...
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Gays more sinful than pagans, Patriarch Kirill says
On February 9, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church continued to publicly reinforce his negative stance on gays and same-sex marriage. “It might look like it is necessary to adopt laws that do not...
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American anti-gay group preaches homophobia in Sochi, athletes remain silent
On Friday, February 7, three members of the American “Street Preachers” group staged a picket at the crowded Sochi railway station, while Olympic athletes remain mostly silent on LGBT equality issues...
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Milonov mimics pro-gay coloring book about Misha at the Olympics
On February 11, Vitaly Milonov, a deputy in the legislative assembly of St. Petersburg, announced he has created a coloring book on traditional marriage in response to the FCKH8 coloring book about...
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Bayev vs. Okhlobystin: hate speech court hearing scheduled at March, 17
On March 17, Tushino district court in Moscow will examine the case on protection of honor and dignity of LGBT activist Nikolai Bayev brought up against Ivan Okhlobystin, a Russian actor, for his...
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Anti-Western, homophobic Russian state TV CEO spotted in Amsterdam, world’s...
Prominent Russian TV personality Dmitry Kiselev, known internationally by his radical gay-hating and anti-Western remarks, has chosen the city of Amsterdam, the world’s ‘gay capital’, as a holiday...
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Moscow court dismisses lawsuit on Okhlobystin’s hate speech
On March 17, Tushino district court in Moscow dismissed a lawsuit filed by Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Bayev against Russian sitcom actor Ivan Okhlobystin due to his remarks on “burning gays alive in...
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MP Milonov proposes creating vice squads to protect ”traditional values” in...
St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly MP and United Russia member Vitaly Milonov proposed to establish a new division in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the morality police. Milonov made his...
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Novosibirsk homophobe punished for antigay hate speech
On April 7, a sentence of the Federal Court of general jurisdiction of the Kirov district of Novosibirsk took effect punishing a 23-year-old man for disseminating hateful messages against LGBT and...
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Russian actor volunteers to ”combat sodomic plague” with police squads
Ivan Okhlobystin, known internationally for a number of militant hate speeches against LGBT people, continues to feed the flame of homophobia in Russia freely. In his official Vkontakte account, in...
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[EXPLICIT!] The ‘Beauty’ of Russian Homophobia
Lena Klimova, the founder of Children-404, an online support network for LGBT teens in Russia similar to the It Gets Better campaign in the United States, has launched a new project meant to shame the...
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LGBT activists call for liability of Vitaly Milonov for hate speeches
Participants of the rainbow column forming a part of the 1st of May demonstration in Saint-Peterburg wrote to the Investigation Committee, Police, Prosecution Office and Court with demand of calling...
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