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I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.
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It is lawlessness of Moscow's and Russian authorities - what is happening here is a complete lawlessness, we are just trying to hold a peaceful human rights action.
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Part of our strategy was also to impress the Russian media. We needed to show them that they had to get rid of all the stereotypes about gays.
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The regime is mostly interested in discrediting the opposition, including using the services of prostitutes to put opponents in a sex scandal and sometimes mainstream human rights activists as well.