That's total bullshit, your media are actually exaggerating the whole thing. No one is gonna do anything to you for being gay, given that you do not participate in something massive, like parades. Well, of course people aren't very much fond of LGBT here, but no one really gives a damn unless you're showing it off too defianlty. So, in general, there's nothing to fear, really =)

Your average bisexual Russian furry.

"but no one really gives a damn unless you're showing it off too defianlty. So, in general, there's nothing to fear, really =)"

This is Leophan we're talking about >.>

For me, I don't see a point in parading and showing off my "unusualness". I don't care whether people around me are gay, bi, straight, or whatever else - let 'em do whatever they do, as long as that doesn't concern me. I am me, I don't feel the need to disclose whom I fuck with to non-furs and other strangers, and I don't want anybody to intervene in my private life unless I explicitly wish them to, and I don't do that myself, too. A person's private life is none of everyone else's business.

Nuff said.

There is a difference between parading, and holding hands though.

Yes, there is. By doing that, you may (and you will) catch some unpleasant looks, but, in general, that is not against any law.

As mrKernel says, it's made up. It would have created much more noise in Media if it was true.

Personally I checked this wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia

Which makes me wonder why our health care wouldn't allow blood donation from the LGBT community.
Here's the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Norway

You're too paranoid, silly lion. x3