"Either put or kill." Gaia refused asylum in Russia
“I fled from Uzbekistan because I could no longer endure ridicule, bullying and knuckles. Because I was gay, I was teased by a“ girl ”, threatened in social networks and beaten on the street,” Karim says (changed the name). He came to Russia for the first time in 2008. To collect money for a ticket to Moscow, he first worked as a waiter in a cafe in Uzbekistan, then he went to work in Kazakhstan, got a job as a malarus. “I didn’t want to stay in Kazakhstan.