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While some of the men said they never found acceptance in their families, they insisted that they can be safe as long as they are discreet. Markus said he does not hold a grudge against Putin for monopolizing power. As he put on his makeup before the show, Andrei was asked what he expects the next six years would be like.

NATALIYA VASILYEVA. Rather, we focus on discussions related to local stories by our own staff. Orenburg is a Russian city near the Ural Mountains that separate Europe and Asia. Share story. Most of the patrons did not want to be photographed or interviewed, saying they feared repercussions from neighbors or colleagues.

DEMONYMS: Russian, Asian, European Ural is a geographical region within Russia. Russian police have raided a gay club in Yekaterinburg, detaining more than people who were attending a party in the city in Russia's Urals region. Like many Russians, he credited him for bringing stability despite worsening relations with the West.

Markus, 26, left home in his early teens after dropping out of a military boarding school. Club owners told The Insider that while a significant part of their former customer base has left Russia, plenty of their younger patrons still find it hard to believe that the Kremlin is serious about eradicating all public manifestations of gay life.

Russia is believed to have been named after Rus, the founding legend of three Slavic brothers: the Lechites, the Czechs, and the Ruthenians (known as Rus). You can read more about our community policies here. A government investigation found no proof to back the accounts of dozens who spoke about torture at secret prison facilities overseen by the allies of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

On Jan. 31, a week before the Winter Olympics began, authorities in the Ural Mountains city of Nizhny Tagil, part of Russia’s industrial heartland, used the gay-propaganda law to shut down the. Unlike most victims of anti-gay violence that largely goes unreported in Russia, Naumov went to the police and filed charges.

The values here are distinctly Russian: people on TV talk about how soldiers defend Russia from LGBT Ukrainians even as gay and lesbian people are served cocktails in a small nearby bar that seeks anonymity by forgoing a sign. The year-old appeared to be the only person at the club in this industrial city 1, kilometers miles east of Moscow who was enthusiastic — even if in a joking way — about voting Sunday and what the re-election of President Vladimir Putin would mean for the LGBT community in Russia.

His attackers were given brief prison sentences. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in , homosexuality could be punished by up to five years in prison. Historian Rustam Alexander discusses the rising homophobia in Russia, which has translated into increasingly frequent and brutal raids on Russian gay clubs, with clubgoers and employees sometimes charged with criminal offenses.

For the LGBT community in Yekaterinburg, those horror stories seem like something from a foreign country — unconceivable in this city in the Ural mountains. Exclusive reviews, maps, photos, discounts. A year ago, reports began emerging from the predominantly Muslim republic of Chechnya in southern Russia that men were tortured and killed on the mere suspicion of being gay.

Recommended in. The Seattle Times does not append comment threads to stories from wire services such as the Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post or Bloomberg News. Zakhar Naumov, a year-old marketing manager at a flower company, said he could understand the need for heightened security.

Russia is part of the Eastern Europe region in the continent of Europe. The best gay bars, gay dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay saunas, gay cruise clubs and more in gay Russia. But he draws hope from a younger generation that appears to be far more accepting of gays than people who grew up in the Soviet Union.

He has claimed there are no gays in Chechnya. The performers interviewed at the club would not give their last names because they had day jobs elsewhere and feared repercussions. It is known for sure that there are 15 wigs in the club: some are worn by drag queens. Among the performers at the Fame nightclub, Andrei was the only one who said he would vote, although he refused to say for whom.

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA.