Sochi: gay rights: what’s going on? – video
Channel 4 News Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem provides a brief description about why Sochi has become the focus of the fight for gay rights in Russia.
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As two members of punk band Pussy Riot are detained in Sochi, Channel 4 News looks at Russia’s Winter Olympics protest arrests so far.
Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay propaganda laws have sought to stifle homosexual expression – but Sochi’s opening ceremony featured some of the most prominent homosexuals in international history.
Vanessa Vanakorn – also known as Vanessa Mae, the famous violinist skiing for Thailand in Sochi says that she doesn’t have the pressure of chasing medals. “Thailand has never seen snow,” she adds.
Boycotting the Winter Olympics opening ceremony over gay rights? Watch the London Gay Men’s Chorus outside the Russian embassy instead.
Cathy Newman is in a gay bar in Soho for a “From Russia With Love” event and we speak to Lord Coe about gay rights at the Olympics.
Channel 4 News Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem provides a brief description about why Sochi has become the focus of the fight for gay rights in Russia.
Russia’s new anti-gay propaganda law, which is supposed to protect children, has for the first time been used against a minor – 14 year-old Maria Novikova. This is her story, as told by Nick Sturdee.
The level of hostility towards gay people in Russia right now is eye-watering, writes Liz MacKean on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Hunted explores the terror that gay people in Russia are calling “hunting season”. Watch Dispatches on Wednesday at 10pm on Channel 4.
So brilliant – they are going to start counting. I’m delighted. Now let’s make it count.
As Russia prepares to host the Sochi Winter Olympics, Matt Frei reports that the country’s campaign against gay people shows its worst side – just when it hoped the world would see only its best.
A 2013 law bans promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations” in Russia. With the Sochi Olympics weeks away, how do the rights of Russian gay people compare with those from other European countries?
A Ukip councillor is suspended by his party after blaming the recent UK floods on the passing of gay marriage laws, and stating homosexuality is a disease “which can be cured”.
Gay marriage is to blame for the recent flooding and high winds in England, a Ukip councillor claims. Pestilence and war may also follow, the Henley-on-Thames councillor David Silvester warns.
Russian President Putin tries, and fails, to reassure the world about his country’s treatment of gay people by saying they are welcome to the Winter Olympics – as long as they stay away from children.