NIKOLAJ KHRAMOV TRIED TO DELIVER TO THE DUMA DEPUTY RAYKOV "A GIFT ON BEHALF OF GAYS"

26/04/2002

Moscow. April 26. INTERFAX - On Friday, the head of the board of the "Russian branch of the Transnational Radical party" Nikolay Khramov tried to deliver a copy of the flag of fascist Germany to the leader of the group "People's Deputy" Gennady Raykov.

Together with three colleagues, he carried out a small picket at the building of the State Duma where in presence of numerous Russian and foreign journalists he expressed his attitude towards recent initiative of G.Raykov to restore criminal responsibility for homosexuality.

As N.Khramov said, this "gift" is worthy to hang in the study of G.Raykov on behalf of Russian gays "with gratitude".

N.Khramov reminded that in due time the thesis of struggle against homosexuality was actively exploited in the fascist Germany, in 1942 the fascists introduced responsibility for homosexuality up to the last sanction of the law.

The participants of the picket came to the building of the State Duma in prison clothes with pink triangles - a symbol which "the homosexuals had to wear in hitlerite concentration camps", N.Khramov explained.

He tried to deliver his "gift" to G.Raykov having called to the reception of the deputy. But no employee of the secretariate or apparatus wished to come for this "gift", as it was said by phone.