[S.T.D.]

This was not meant as a joke.
Real russia in Syberias small towns. Where people don't give a fuck about you being gay or anything. They just like you.

[Beerinkol]

Russia was actually quite pleasant when i visited...........but hey, what do i know? Im not armchair expert generalizing whole nations off of articles i read.

[Ifroham4]

i.e. this entire thread

[tgs]

Seriously - The author of this article seems to have blatantly made a lot of this shit up. I'm not saying the law is a good one, but I don't know how they equated

"fines of up to 200,000 rubles ($6,700) for "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" to minors through the media or Internet"

With

Wear rainbow suspenders in public and Putin's secret police will literally throw you in a gulag