A 2011 cross-national study by University of Chicago demonstrated that a trend of LGBT acceptance is either slowed or reversed in Russia and some other former USSR republics, a direct opposite of world trends.
芝加哥大学2011年的跨国研究表明，在俄罗斯或其他前苏联共和国，接受LGBT人士的趋势在减缓或逆转，这与世界趋势截然相反。