Two men have been able to register their
marriage in Russia, a first for the country that the Interior Ministry
attributes to a bureaucratic error.
Russia
doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage and has a law banning the
dissemination of gay “propaganda” to minors, so Pavel Stotzko and
Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky’s claim that their marriage was officially
registered has caused an uproar.
The couple says
they got married in Denmark and submitted their passports to a
registrar’s office, where a clerk docilely put marriage stamps on the
travel documents last week.
The Interior Ministry says the passports will be withdrawn and the clerk who stamped them fired.
Russian
LGBT Network, a gay rights group, said Monday Jan 29,2018 that the newlyweds have
left Russia, fearing for their security amid official pressure
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