Cases Quote by Vladimir Putin

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is…

— Vladimir Putin

It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good or bad,…

— Vladimir Putin

The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

— Vladimir Putin

We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the…

— Cecilia Malmstrom

The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual or physical…

— Masha Gessen

There's another piece of legislation in Russia that would make "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" a cause for removing parental rights, and remove children…

— Masha Gessen

Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three…

— Yakov Smirnoff

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a…

— Vladimir Sorokin

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has…

— Alexei Navalny

I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity…

— Bryan Fischer

I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.

— Alexei Mordashov

Russia, at the start of the 21st century, at least in its larger cities, very much resembled the United States of the early 1990s:…

— Masha Gessen