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• Russian Officials Shut Down Country's First LGBT Film Fest
  October 9 2008, Advocate



• Russia's First LGBT Film Festival Fights On Despite Government and Media Resistance
  October 7 2008, IndieWire



• "Side by Side": What were authorities afraid of? /Photographs/
  October 7 2008, Private Blog



• Gay Film Festival Held In Secrecy
  October 7 2008, The St. Petersburg Times



• John Cameron Mitchell: OMON Backwards Spells 'HOMO'
  October 6 2008, Chtodelat News



• Russian Officials Attempt (But Fail) to Squelch the Nation's 1st LGBT Film Fest
  October 6 2008, Bilerico Project



• Valeria Novodvorskaya: "I find it hard to imagine gays storming the Kremlin..."
  February 13 2008, Gay.ru



• The idea of holding the first International LGBT Film Festival called "Side by Side" planned for this fall, is growing into a real scandal
  February 11 2008, Press-Attashe



• Gay, cinema: Will there be held the First International Queer Film Festival in Russia?
  February 4 2008, Nasha Versia



• What is better: Pride Festival in Moscow or LGBT Film Festival in Saint-Petersburg?
  February 2 2008, Gay Russia



• Talk-show program (N. Burlyaev and N. Alexeev)
  January 29 2008, Novoe Vremya



• Gay-culture propagandists wouldn't calm down (Mikhail Boyarskiy, Mikhail Svetin)
  January 29 2008, Sobesednik



• Marina Chen has joined Pro-Film Festival "Bok o Bok" Group
  January 26 2008, Gay.ru



• Homosexual-Love-Oriented Film Festival (Andrey Zhitinkin, Mark Rudinstein)
  January 26 2008, Echo Moskvi



• Orthodox Radicals Threaten to Wreck LGBT Film Festival in Saint-Petersburg
  January 26 2008, Gay Russia



• New attempts to persuade Russia that homosexualism is a norm
  January 25 2008, Regions.ru



• Alexander Sokurov and Svetlana Surganova support LGBT Film Festival "Bok o Bok"
  January 25 2008, Gay.ru



• Mark Rudinstein disapproves the idea of LGBT Film Festival in Saint-Petersburg
  January 25 2008, Interfax



• "Bok o Bok": Gays Are Kept From Closing The Ranks
  January 24 2008, Moj Rajon



• LGBT Film Festival aroused anger and bewilderment among St. Petersburg cultural figures
  January 24 2008, Echo Moskvi



• Real passion is flared around the first lesbians and gay festival in Russia
  January 24 2008, Novie Izvestiya



• St-Petersburg against films of sex-minorities
  January 19 2008, Komsomolskaya Pravda



• St-Petersburg is afraid of gay invasion
  January 18 2008, What's New?



• Producer Evgeni Tatarsky: House of Cinema is not the place to display films about gay
  January 16 2008, Gay.ru



• St-Petersburg does not want "not for everybody" festival
  January 16 2008, Fontanka.ru



• Majorities are against film festival about non-traditional love
  January 16 2008, GAZETA.SPB



• St-Petersburg LGBT festival "Side by Side" caused a scandal
  January 16 2008, GAY RADIO



• Scandal is beginning to flame up about the film festival in St-Petersburg
  January 16 2008, Echo Moskvi



• Nikolai Burlyaev is against having in St-Petersburg a film festival of non-traditional love
  January 10 2008, GAZETA.SPB



• Nikolai Burlyaev: We should not be afraid of the shrieks of perverts
  January 9 2008, Russkaya Liniya



• Russia's First Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Film Festival to Launch in 2008.
  January 9 2008, Interfax

 

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