page_title: Moscow Pride
section_title: Moscow Pride 2008
hierarchical_section_title: Moscow Pride / Moscow Pride 2008
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Foto des Moscow Pride am 1. Juni 2008 English: Photo of the Moscow Pride on June 1, 2009, showing one of the two events that were organized on that day in Moscow, particuarly the flashmob protest next to the Statue of Tchaikovsky, near the Conservatory of Classical Music. In the back, Nikolai Alekseev is interviewed by a TV station near the banner of the Moscow Pride that was carried.
context_page_description: Moscow Pride is a demonstration of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender persons. It was intended to take place in May annually since 2006 in the Russian capital Moscow, but has been regularly banned by Moscow City Hall, headed by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov until 2010. The demonstrations in 2006, 2007, and 2008 were all accompanied by homophobic attacks, which was avoided in 2009 by moving the site of the demonstration at the last minute. The organizers of all of the demonstrations were Nikolai Alekseev and the Russian LGBT Human Rights Project Gayrussia.ru. In June 2012, Moscow courts enacted a hundred-year ban on gay pride parades. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly ruled that such bans violate freedom of assembly guaranteed by the European Convention of Human Rights.
context_section_description: Organizers applied for five marches in different locations per every day in May, but Moscow Mayor banned all the 155 events saying that "they will endanger public order and cause negative reaction of the majority of the population". President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, phoned the Prefecture of the Central Administrative area of Moscow and told him to authorise the gay demonstration, nevertheless, authorization was refused. Organizers introduced the ban of all marches to the European Court of Human Rights after they lost in Russian courts. The event took place on Sunday June,1 in two locations : First, a flashmob protest which gathered around thirty LGBT activists led by Nikolai Alekseev in front of the Statue of famous Russian music composer Tchaikovsky and second they unveiled a banner quoting "Rights to Gays and Lesbians. Homophobia of Mayor Luzhkov should be prosecuted" from the third floor of a building in front of the Moscow City Hall. The trick of the activists worked. While they were able to have their flashmob protest without being assaulted or arrested in a different location, they symbolically made their protest in front of the City Hall and avoid clashes with protesters as they were not on the ground.
caption: Photo of the Moscow Pride 2008 on June 1, 2008.[2]
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