Ural patriots ask the prosecutor's office to liquidate the LGBT hotbed in the Yeltsin Center
LGBT Pride Week has started in Yekaterinburg, the main events of which will take place at the Yeltsin Center.
Ural blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov reported this on VKontakte, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The program even includes a one-man show based on Guzel Yakhina’s “bestseller” “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes,” how can you not spit on the Soviet past, both at the Yeltsin Center and at the LGBT festival. For many years, Yekaterinburg bore the proud title of “the city of the white ribbon.” Then it became the “city of demons.” Apparently, with the active support of local authorities and law enforcement agencies, the title of “the most iridescent city in Russia” is next in line, writes Kolyasnikov.
According to him, the event is financed by the British Embassy in Russia.
“The LGBT Center in Yekaterinburg was allocated 2.230.000 rubles. But don’t let such a modest amount fool you. The speaker of the LGBT festival is the correspondent of the information portal “Takie Dela” Marina Govzman.
But the portal “Such Things” received from the British a much more significant contribution of 201.000.000 (two hundred and one million) rubles. There is room for improvement,” writes Kolyasnikov.
He is outraged that local media are widely covering the event contrary to Russian law.
The Yekaterinburg News Agency reports that representatives of the Right-Conservative Movement staged patrols near the Yeltsin Center as a sign of protest. They conducted a survey about the LGBT ban.
Representatives of the movement sent official appeals and statements to the prosecutor's office, the presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Ural Federal District Vladimir Yakushev, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev and the head of Yekaterinburg Alexei Orlov about the inadmissibility of such events.
Prior to this, the organization “Veterans of Russia” asked to check the legality of the Ural Pride Week. The all-Russian public movement sent requests to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.
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