MOSCOW — Russia has pulled out of a longstanding American high-school exchange program after a teenage Russian boy who befriended a gay couple sought asylum in the United States on the grounds that he faced persecution at home as a homosexual. Russia...

Autocensure assumée chez Ikea. En Russie, le fabricant suédois de meuble a supprimé deux pages montrant un couple de lesbiennes dans la dernière édition de son magazine mensuel destiné aux clients. Ikea confirme volontairement respecter la loi russe qui...

MOSCOW — Yegor grew up in a Siberian town called Lyubov, which means “love” in Russian, but he has never told his parents that when he falls in love, it is with other men. “I don’t want them to feel ashamed,” Yegor, 34, wrote in response to an invitation...