Integration: Not Leaving Can Europe integrate millions of migrants or are they forever guests? introduction Coda Story
Traditional Values: does Kremlin-promoted morality have much to do with beliefs? Moscow says it has an alternative to the concepts of “freedom” and “democracy” propagated by the West introduction Coda Story
Kiev’s equality march passes peacefully Opposition from foreign and domestic forces arrayed against LGBTQ rights failed to disrupt an annual march in Kiev, bolstering Ukraine’s halting efforts to align with the West dispatch Ian Bateson
Murder after the Revolution Since Ukraine’s 2014 revolution, the number of killings of gay men has exploded. How Ukraine responds will help determine the country’s political trajectory—as a part of Europe or spinning toward Russia feature David Stern
Unholy alliance For a decade, the Russian Orthodox Church has countenanced thuggish anti-LGBTQ groups. When Russians mobilized to protect public parks from new church construction, this partnership went to work to label green space a nefarious gay cause dispatch Evgeniy Shapovalov
A “family” gathering commemorates an anti-gay riot An anti-LGBTQ conference provides ecumenical and political unity among American, Georgian and Russian members of the religious right dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
A violent struggle over national identity Kyrgyzstan’s beacon of tolerance under threat from manufactured Kremlin homophobia dispatch Andrew North
Young, Russian, Gay, and Pro-Putin Why do many Russian LGBTQ members support Putin’s presidency? dispatch Francesca Ebel
Forgotten revolutionaries Ukraine’s LGBT community depends on the West to defend their rights dispatch Ian Bateson
The absent activists Silicon Valley’s extraordinarily wealthy and powerful companies, which have advocated forcefully for LGBTQ rights throughout America, are remaining silent about Putin’s anti-gay laws as they pursue the Russian market feature Alan Deutschman
The primetime bombshell What happened when a Russian celebrity revealed his HIV positive status on live TV dispatch Anna Nemtsova