Russian Federation: governments threaten freedom of association and assembly for LGBT organizations.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has insisted that he will not allow the Moscow's Gay Pride parade,scheduled for 27 May 2007, to go ahead, calling it a "satanic" event. Luzhkov banned the first planned Gay Pride parade which was scheduled to take place on the same date in 2006. On that occasion, the authorities stated that permission for the event was denied because of impossibility to provide adequate security for the participants. Two court decisions later affirmed the ban.