For 8 years the Russian LGBT community has made attempts to have a Gay Pride parade in Moscow. But every year all public LGBT actions have been banned by the authorities, despite the 2010 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that these bans are illegal. In 2012 Moscow authorities banned pride marches for the next 100 years. The same year, St. Petersburg authorities put into effect a law banning "propaganda promoting sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgender issues and pedophilia towards minors", a law that is now federal.
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