MOSCOW: Gay athletes are welcome to participate in Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi but must obey a new law banning “homosexual propaganda,” the country’s sports minister said Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in June signed into law legislation that punishes the dissemination of information about homosexuality to minors but which activists say can be used for a broad crackdown against gays.
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