TIMELINE OF PUTIN'S ERA
1999: Yeltsin announces his resignation and names Vladimir Putin as acting president
2000: Putin wins the March election with 53 percent of the vote
2006: The Ryazan region is the first of Russia’s 89 regions and republics to ban “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”. The fine is up to 20,000 rubles. (Just above $300 in American currency)
2007: LGBT activists try to petition Moscow’s mayor for the right to hold a pride parade. They are met by 'neo-Nazi’s', punched, kicked, egged and arrested.
2009: Irina Feotova is charged under the new “propaganda ban” for holding up posters that read “Homosexuality is normal” and “I am proud of my homosexuality”.
Jan 2010: The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation backs the Ryazin law.
Oct 2010: The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia has violated the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
2012: Moscow courts enact a hundred-year ban on gay pride parades after multiple years of homophobic attacks and arrests.
2012: Seven more regions pass their own “propaganda of homosexuality among minor” bans.
June 11, 2013: The regional bans against “homosexual propaganda” go national when the lower house of parliament passes a law against “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” defined as “relations not conducive to procreation.”
July 28, 2013: Vitaly Milonov, the Chairman of the St. Petersburg legislature’s committee for legislation says that the new law will applied to foreign athletes that are due to attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
2000: Putin wins the March election with 53 percent of the vote
2006: The Ryazan region is the first of Russia’s 89 regions and republics to ban “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”. The fine is up to 20,000 rubles. (Just above $300 in American currency)
2007: LGBT activists try to petition Moscow’s mayor for the right to hold a pride parade. They are met by 'neo-Nazi’s', punched, kicked, egged and arrested.
2009: Irina Feotova is charged under the new “propaganda ban” for holding up posters that read “Homosexuality is normal” and “I am proud of my homosexuality”.
Jan 2010: The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation backs the Ryazin law.
Oct 2010: The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia has violated the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
2012: Moscow courts enact a hundred-year ban on gay pride parades after multiple years of homophobic attacks and arrests.
2012: Seven more regions pass their own “propaganda of homosexuality among minor” bans.
June 11, 2013: The regional bans against “homosexual propaganda” go national when the lower house of parliament passes a law against “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” defined as “relations not conducive to procreation.”
July 28, 2013: Vitaly Milonov, the Chairman of the St. Petersburg legislature’s committee for legislation says that the new law will applied to foreign athletes that are due to attend the Winter Olympics in Sochi.