What Is It About Pride, Russia, and Ukraine? HD

The panel is organized by RUSA LGBT and sponsored by CBST’s Global LGBTQ Concerns Initiative. Moderator: Masha Gessen Masha Gessen is a writer, a Russian-American journalist and an LGBT-activist. Just recently, Masha participated in the Pride March in Kiev, Ukraine. Masha used to live in Moscow and now she lives in New York. Masha Gessen is the author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. Her latest book is The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy. Read more here: http://rusalgbt.com/2015/06/panel/ Panelists: Maria Kozlovskaya, Russian LGBT-Network (St. Petersburg, Russia) Svetlana Zakharova, Russian LGBT-Network (St. Petersburg, Russia) Taras Karasiichuk, Gay Alliance Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) Volodymyr Naumenko, Gay Alliance Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) Valery Sozaev, Center for Social and Information Initiatives Action. (St. Petersburg, Russia) Anton Kuzmin, Center for Social and Information Initiatives Action. (St. Petersburg, Russia) Anna Annenkova, Russian LGBT activist (Moscow, Russia) Elena Kostyuchenko, Russian journalist, LGBT activist (Moscow, Russia)