EU reaction to the Russian anti-gay mob

Russia is ploughing ahead with it's plans to introduce it's revolting "gay propaganda" legislation nationwide in July. We've already seen (and it was easy to predict BTW) the hatred inspired by the churches on May 17th when mob rule took over and gays feared for their lives. I wonder how brave they all felt clobbering defenceless people like that? Under the propaganda law, the situation will only get worse for human rights abuses against gay people within their own country of Russia. I'd think there'll soon be gays seeking asylum from there the way it's going.

However, given some of the bare faced bigotry coming out of Russia on the net, particularly in replies to YouTube videos showing the May 17th mob thuggery, I doubt that many people inside Russia care less what the west thinks of them. The stage is therefore set. The churches are in charge there it seems, and in fact look happy to use violence against gays. Russia is spiralling down towards a theocratic dictatorship, much to the concern of the west. It's not just a concern for gay human rights abuses. It's a concern for the very relationship the west has enjoyed with Russia in recent times. Now the EU is appealing to Russia to stop it's path to the medieval.

“The EU called on Russia to refrain from adopting federal legislation on ‘homosexual propaganda,’ which it believed could increase discrimination and violence against LGBTI individuals,” the EU said in a statement on its website. The statement referred to the results of a meeting on May 17 in Brussels between Russian and EU diplomats on human rights issues. 

The statement also said the “EU confirmed its intention to continue to follow closely developments affecting NGOs as a whole in the Russian Federation and expressed among others its concerns at the fining of election monitoring organisation Golos and at the charges brought against ADC Memorial in St Petersburg.” 

Russia introduced a law last November requiring NGOs involved in political activity and receiving foreign funding to register as “foreign agents.” NGOs have complained that this terms is synonymous with spying in the eyes of the Russian public, and have refused to register as required. more