RIGHTS:  Russian Gays Prepare for Another Struggle
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MOSCOW, Mar 12 (IPS) - Russian homosexuals are taking up a new fight to   assert their rights in the face of what the  mayor of Moscow has  called "satanic" practices.
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Four more years of George W. Bush is a daunting prospect for many gay Americans, who see a president increasingly beholden to an evangelical Christian base bent on resisting gay equality.
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Plan has prompted the first serious opposition to the Putin government.
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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A battle is under way in Russia for the stately homes of the country's former aristocracy.
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Soflan Siukayev has already lived through one war in South Ossetia. Now his family has been caught up in a second.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Emma de Ramon recently bought a condominium here. But even before she moved in, she said, everyone in the building knew one fact about her: She's gay.
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MOSCOW -- Demonstrations across Russia posed a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin yesterday, as authorities bowed to the demands of protesting retirees by restoring some state benefits, such as free public transportation and subsidized medicine.
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More than 70 people are held in Moscow as activists try to hold the city's first gay rights rally despite a ban.
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"Protection of marriage" is now the watchword for many activists fighting to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying. Some conservatives, however, say marriage in America began unraveling long before the latest gay-rights push and are pleading for a fresh, soul-searching look at the institution.
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have granted amnesties to two prominent rights activists in what could be part of government efforts to mend frosty ties with the West.
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Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday, a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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The ritual of organised bullying in the Russian army is getting worse, an international rights group warns.
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An underground movement of gay  Orthodox Jews in Israel has created a Web site to help  homosexuals cope with living in a strict, religious community  that is often hostile to their lifestyle.
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While cities around the world hosted upbeat gay pride parades in recent weeks, human-rights activists kept watch on a contrasting set of developments: gays beaten by demonstrators in Moscow, convicted on sodomy charges in Cameroon, targeted by sweeping anti-gay legislation in Nigeria.
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Moscow is not prepared to bargain over Kosovo or Washington's plans for a missile shield in Europe and the West must understand this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.