The ECHR communicated complaints about the ban on more than a hundred LGBT events in seven Russian cities

The European Court of Human Rights accepted two complaints about the refusal to approve more than a hundred LGBT-themed events in Moscow, Kostroma, Arkhangelsk, Khimki, Sochi, Tambov and Ryazan from 2009 to 2015 and addressed the Russian authorities with questions about this . This was reported on February 1 on the website of the human rights project GayRussia.

The applicants were Nikolai Alekseev, organizer of Moscow gay pride parades, his mother Irina Alekseeva, and activists Kirill Nepomnyashchiy, Sofia Mikhailova, Yaroslav Yevtushenko and Maria Rumyantseva.

According to the applicants, the actions of the Russian authorities violated three articles of the European Convention: Article 11 (the right to freedom of assembly), Article 13 (the right to an effective judicial remedy) and Article 14 (the prohibition of discrimination).