Moscow official nixes gay rights parade
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A top Moscow official repeated Wednesday that the city will not allow a gay rights parade, echoing the mayor's vocal criticism and saying that homosexuality is bad for your health, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
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The British government's cultural arm,  caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on  Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because  local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security  service.
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Moscow cancelled a London exhibition of French and Russian masterpieces on Thursday, saying Britain had failed to guarantee their safe return in the latest diplomatic row between the two countries.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Friday rejected U.S. arguments for deploying an anti-missile defense system in eastern Europe and insisted Russia would not be drawn into a Cold War-style arms race.
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Russia on Wednesday curtly rejected U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, telling Washington to stay out of its business.
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The mayor of Vilnius bans a gay rights rally planned for the city, and a social event is attacked with smoke bombs.
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Russia's top election authority on   Wednesday threw out a call for a people's poll that would clear   the way for President Vladimir Putin to stay on in power,   making it more likely he will step down as he plans in 2008.
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The Russian government on Sunday denied an opposition leaderâs application to appear on the March 2 presidential ballot, clearing a path for the Kremlinâs favorite candidate to run all but unchallenged.
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Russia and the EU were today embroiled in another major row after the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) said that it would not monitor next month's presidential elections in Russia because of "severe restrictions" placed on it by Moscow.
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Europe's main election watchdog cancelled plans on Thursday to monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia's election authorities on Sunday  barred former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, a sharp critic  of the Kremlin, from running in a March presidential election  against President Vladimir Putin's chosen candidate.
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West European MPs and a Russian gay rights leader are arrested in Moscow during violence at a banned protest.
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Gay rights activists were pummeled by right-wing protesters and detained by police Saturday, preventing them from putting on a display of gay pride in defiance of a city ban.
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A rally meant to promote tolerance was scrapped, after rumours were spread that it was in fact a gay parade.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent, Russian media reported.
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Russia on Wednesday rejected a NATO offer to hold a special conference on a key European arms pact and instead proposed working on a new agreement, local news agencies quoted a top defense ministry official as saying.
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President Vladimir Putin's newly appointed envoy to NATO emphasized Moscow's opposition to Kosovo's independence bid Thursday, but said Russia would not send peacekeepers to the Serbian province.