Wednesday morning, Natalia Tsymbalova (pictured above), founder of
Straight Alliance for LGBT Equality in Russia, distributed a story about how Olga Bakhayeva, a school teacher from Magnitogorsk, was forced out of her
job
after three months of “homophobic harassment involving the authorities
and law-enforcement agencies.” She writes that Alexander Yermoshkin, a
teacher from Khabarovsk, “now faces the same” fate. Tsymbalova writes,
“While Russian leaders try to make the world believe that no one is
persecuted and discriminated in Russia for their sexual orientation,
more evidences are increasingly appearing lately.”
Tsymbalova distributed this translated story by journalist Yelena Racheva (published in the
Russian internet magazine
Colta.ru)
as a press release and therefore I post it here in full not only for
your consideration but to add to the historic record about the
violations of human rights that
continue in Russia, as the world turns their attention to other matters.
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