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Moscow Bans Gay-Pride Parade
May 15, 2007
Police cracked down on the unauthorized parade in 2006 (RFE/RL)
Nikolai Kulikov, who is in charge of security issues for the Moscow city government, explained the ban by saying that the proposed parade violates the "rights and liberties" of non-gay citizens.
Moscow authorities also banned the parade last year, and police broke it up when activists tried to hold a parade in spite of the ban.
(Interfax)