Russian Olympian Slams Critics Of Anti-Gay Law
‘We Consider Ourselves Normal, Standard People’ 
A Russian Olympic athlete considered the top women’s pole vaulter in the world yesterday slammed critics of President Vladimir Putin‘s anti-gay laws by saying that Russians are “normal, standard people” — unlike “European people.”
Yelena Isinbayeva, 31, has won three Olympic medals, and took to the stage to condemn public homosexuality, and to personally chastise several Swedish athletes in Moscow this week at the World Championships. At least two women on Sweden’s national team painted their fingernails in various rainbow colors as a show of support for Russia’s LGBT community.
Vladimir Putin has been waging war on his LGBT citizens, and enabling violent anti-gay hate to run rampant, mutating into a perverted form of Russian national pride. Russians are now filming their violent attacks on LGBT people and cheerfully posting them to online social media sites and YouTube. Much of the Western world has expressed outrage over the treatment of LGBT people in Russia, ahead of the 2014 Winer Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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