Russia's LGBT community is increasingly feeling that its rights are being repeatedly violated and its freedoms are being compromised even a year after the government passed a law banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors", say human rights activists.
According to Tanya Lokshina, program director and senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, only four individuals have been fined since President Vladimir Putin approved the law in 2013.
The law has also propelled anti-gay violence and hostility towards the LGBT community that has been branded as perverse and unnatural, reports the Moscow Times.
While Human Rights Watch has observed violence against the LGBT community in the country, Putin denies existence of any kind of discrimination against them.