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Rainbow NewsOverscaled Resistance to Moscow Open Games - Even Desserts Under Suspicion of Drug Control
13 Mar. 2014
Officials of the Russian state authority for drug control tested even the sugar powder used for fruit desserts to be served for guests of the first Russian Open LGBT Games. The scale of the arbitrary rule this time has embarrassed even those gay activists who had seen a great deal in their lives. The foreigners left Moscow shocked.
"We are very much concerned with the vast intrusion [of the state] into the work of businessmen and human rights activists during the Games. We find it unacceptable for the state to allocate huge human, material and time reserves for resistance to the LGBT sports and human rights event which did not violate any law." The Vykhod LGBT organization is awaiting an official response from the Moscow officials. Human rights activists are indignant with the real war against the gay community which was declared during the Moscow Open Games.
330 athletes from 11 countries participated in the Games organized by the LGBT Sports Federation and backed by the coalition of Russian LGBT organizations. Since the very first day of the Open Games its organizers and participants have been facing numerous attempts to ruin the international LGBT event. The police, the immigration control and Moscow authorities were united in pressure on people involved in the gay event.
On the very eve of the Games (Feb. 25) several sports and entertainment establishments at once refused to allocate its premises for the LGBT event despite the advance payment and signed lease agreements. Hotels and hostels canceled the bookings for the visitors of Moscow Open Games.
"The opening ceremony on Feb. 26 was ruined by a call about a bomb supposedly laid in the sports complex. Together with the rapid reaction police units the scene was checked also by drug control officials to test the sugar powder", gay activists recall the unprecedented state reaction.
Athletes who came to Moscow from other countries and Russian cities were sadly surprised by close attention from the police, immigration control as well as by hotel bookings' cancellations and groundless demands law of enforcement officials to leave hostels and hotels. Owners of some hostels expressed their sympathies and understanding of the problems of the Games' participants although they were deeply tired with insistent bothering from the Moscow authorities.
"We call on our colleagues - human rights defenders to react on what is going on. We call on journalists to inform the society on misconduct and tyranny, illegal expenditures of state budget and intrusion into the work of businesspeople and human rights defenders. We insist on official response from the Moscow government and call on everybody to join us in these efforts...", says the Coming Out's statement.
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