KIEV: More than 700 gay-rights activists held a peaceful march through central Kiev on Sunday amid an unprecedented security operation in the ex-Soviet country where homophobia remains widespread.

Sunday's march was the third such gay pride rally in Ukraine but the first ever to be held in the center of the capital Kiev.

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