23 December 2013
In recent days the presidents of Germany, France and the United States announced they wouldn’t attend the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, in February 2014. None explained why they decided to skip the Games, but one can guess that the appalling human rights situation in Russia played a part. Of particular concern is the terrible truth the Russian government has been so vehemently denying: routine demonization of Russia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the government’s discriminatory policies against its LGBT citizens.
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