Kyiv’s Gay Rights Rally Held Without Major Incidents
RFE/RL
At this year’s march, participants passed through a metal detector and were checked for dangerous objects.
Earlier in March, an LGBTI event in Lviv was cancelled after some 200 far-right protesters surrounded the venue shouting, “Kill, kill, kill.”
Two weeks ago, Artem Skoropadskiy, a spokesman for the far-right Right Sector movement, predicted on Facebook that “on June 12 in Kyiv there will be a bloody mess.”