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| Nikolay Alexeyev has been campaigning for years for the right to stage gay parades in Russia |
Moscow's
top court has upheld a ban on gay pride marches in the Russian capital for the
next 100 years.
Earlier
Russia's best-known gay rights campaigner, Nikolay Alexeyev, had gone to court
hoping to overturn the city council's ban on gay parades.
He had
asked for the right to stage such parades for the next 100 years.
He also
opposes St Petersburg's ban on spreading "homosexual propaganda". The
European Court of Human Rights has told Russia to pay him damages.
On Friday
he said he would go back to the European Court in Strasbourg to push for a
recognition that Moscow's ban on gay pride marches - past, present and future -
was unjust.
The Moscow
city government argues that the gay parade would risk causing public disorder
and that most Muscovites do not support such an event.
In
September, the Council of Europe - the main human rights watchdog in Europe -
will examine Russia's response to a previous European Court ruling on the gay
rights issue, Russian media report.
In October
2010 the court said Russia had discriminated against Mr Alexeyev on grounds of
sexual orientation. It had considered Moscow's ban on gay parades covering the
period 2006-2008.
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