Gunmen reportedly open fire at Moscow gay club
“Homophobia is policy in Putin’s Russia!”
–Spectrum Human Rights, from the Virginia-based human-rights group’s Nov. 16 release advisving that affiliates in Moscow and Russian media are reporting that two gunmen opened fire at 5 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, Moscow time, on a popular gay nightclub there, Central Station. While bullets struck the buildling housing the club, no one was injured. Russia’s ÕÒàÞáÃϯ outlet reports that no arrests have been made.
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