Moscow's Largest Gay Club Shuts Its Doors
Russia's largest gay club, Moscow's Central Station, is about to be no more, after a series of antigay attacks and a decision from the Moscow Arbitration Court that ordered the club's owners to end their lease of the building, according to Queer Russia.
Central Station was the target of at least three documented attacks in the past six months — one where armed men sprayed the club's unmarked door with bullets in November, another where malefactors released a harmful gas into the club just weeks later, and a third, allegedly organized by the building management, where a group of men dismantled the club's roof in December. In early January, the club's CEO resigned and formally requested asylum in the U.S.
That former owner, Andrei Lichinsky, told news outlets in January that police refused to respond to any of his 30 complaints about attacks on the club and its patrons, and that he had personally been targeted by the local prosecutor's office and had his car lit on fire, according to the U.K. LGBT outlet PinkNews.
http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/03/18/moscows-largest-gay-club-shuts-its-doors
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How can anyone defend him when he's so blatantly homophobic?
The US is moving forwards while Russia is moving backwards.
Putin can go fuck himself.
follow the thread when your blood pressure permits
My transparency page may not have the same feeling towards you. 
And here I thought solidarity meant beating the war drums.
These are the same 'neighborhood defense forces' that Russia organized in Crimea.
I'm sure these "unknown attackers" are just as much a mystery to Putin as the local self defense forces in Ukraine.
