Moscow Police Block Protest For Gay Rights
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MOSCOW — Police blocked gay-rights activists from holding a demonstration in the capital yesterday and detained two of them although city authorities authorized the protest.
About two dozen activists aimed to hold the rally outside the European Union’s representative office in Moscow to demand that the E.U. impose a visa ban on Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has banned gay-rights parades and called homosexuality “satanic.”
