behavior of the global community with boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch program mr dittrich just before we went to the break you mentioned that perhaps had a chance to hold several gay pride parades and you believe that's a sign that the society is getting increasingly more tolerant now one of the reasons why the authorities often cite here in russia as well as in many other countries the ukraine for example for not holding such gay pride parades is the concern for helgi beauty community itself because obviously the authorities have the responsibility of ensuring that security and again the level of violence against people in russia as well as around the world including your own country the netherlands is extremely high so i wonder why i conned the l.d.p. community find a more productive way of working with the society here you know trying to change social norms i think there is a consensus medically that homosexuality in most cases is genetically pre-determined so why not to try a different route rather than confrontational aggressive in your face approach that i would argu

behavior of the global community with boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch program mr dittrich just before we went to the break you mentioned that perhaps had a chance to hold several gay pride parades and you believe that's a sign that this is getting increasingly more tolerant now one of the reasons why that the authorities often side here in russia as well as in many other countries the ukraine for example for not holding such gay pride parades is the concern for helgi beauty community itself because obviously the authorities have the responsibility of ensuring that security and again the level of violence against people in russia as well as a rounded world including your own country the netherlands is extremely high so i wonder why i conned the l.g.b. community find a more productive way of working with the society here you know trying to change social norms i think there is a consensus medically that homosexuality in most cases is genetically pre-determined so why not to try a different route rather than stay confrontational aggressive in your face approach that i would ar

with great to talk over and to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch algae b t programme mr dietrich i really appreciate your being here now you were among those who appealed to the international olympics committee to speak out against what you see as russia's discriminatory a treatment of gays and lesbians and let's face it gays and lesbians and transgender people are being discriminated all around a walled on a social basis but when it comes to legal framework discrimination in bad within laws how exactly are the rights of people being given russia your road to in many countries in the world people so let's say homosexuals are being discriminated but usually not by their governments in russia recently a propaganda law has been adopted by the duma and has been put into force and basically it says when you speak up in public in favor of homosexuality when maher nerves are present or are involved that would violate. the law that would lead to a fine if you are a foreigner you could be arrested and deported from russia ok and how do you know that lympics come into all of that

treated with greater tolerance to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch algy bt program mr dietrich i really appreciate your being here now you were among those who appealed to the international olympics committee to speak out against what you see as russia's discriminatory treatment of gays and lesbians and let's face it gays and lesbians and transgender people are being discriminated all around a walled on a social basis but when it comes to legal framework discrimination in bad within laws how exactly are the rights of algy between people being given russia your road to many countries in the world people so let's say homosexuals are being discriminated but usually not by their governments in russia recently a propaganda law has been adopted by the duma and has been put into force and basically. speak up in public in favor of homosexuality when martin are present or are involved that would violate the law would lead to a fine if you're a foreigner you could be arrested and deported from russia ok and how do you know that lympics come into. all of that well as the minister