The Pink Triangle Trust (PTT), a member organization of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (HEU), is protesting anti-gay legislation proposed in Russia. The legal committee of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly has introduced a draft law prohibiting the so-called propaganda of 'sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and paedophilia to minors'.

Despite difficulties put in their way by the Russian security services, Gennady Shevelev and M. M. Bogoslovsky of IHEU member organization the Russian Humanist Society attended and spoke at a recent conference in St Petersburg organized by the Council of Europe.

Mikhail Bogoslovsky and Gennady Shevelev have issued a press release at the International Conference on "Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue" held in St. Petersburg on 1 June 2007.

See: the list of IHEU Member Organizations

See: the list of IHEU Member Organizations

When I visited Moscow

For two weeks (25 July - 8 August 2004) more than 30 students from Russia and Byelorussia attended two weeks of lectures on Humanism, Philosophical Naturalism and Critical Thinking in Moscow at an International Summer School organised by the Center for Inquiry International, Center for Inquiry Transnational, Moscow State University, State University of New York and the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Humanism in Russia

Fighting Anti-Science in the New Russia

Jim Herrick

Humanism in Russia

A humanist conference in Moscow last Autumn has strengthened the humanist