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On May 26, approximately 50-60 opponents of the upcoming Gay Pride gathered [sk] in Bratislava for a rally organized by the Association for Protection of Family, together with the Citizens' Association for Christian Values and Traditions. The main organizer, Jozef Dupkala, offering a helping hand to homosexuals, said: “Your current pride … will end the moment you stand before The Last Court.” He also said: “We came to offer hope to all those who suffer from this condition, homosexuality, to be able to turn to God in order to accept the cure.”
A 5.6 magnitude earthquake, the strongest since 1917, shook Bulgaria's capital Sofia and the perimeter zone of around 100 km last night, followed by a number of strong aftershocks. No victims have been reported so far. The website Earthquake Reports has published live updates and social networks such as Twitter and Facebook were the first ones to spread the news. The hashtag #земетресение (”earthquake”) is used to communicate on the event through Twitter.
Young Bulgarians and guests from Italy, with support of the New Bulgarian University and project “Beautiful Europe” [bg] will meet on May 23 to discuss the “European idea” and what Europe means to Bulgarians at an event called “Blue Night” - an evening dedicated to the European idea [bg]. The event comes just one day before one of the brightest Bulgarian holidays - the Day of Slavic writing and culture.
Activists in Bulgaria have called for national protests against shale gas extraction on May 22. There is a Facebook event [bg] “National protest against shale gas and changes in Forest Law!”. Tensions are growing after The Greens' activist posted a video [bg] showing a secret meeting between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) representatives and Chevron officials.
In the final segment of the report [ru] on the May 6 protest in Moscow, which ended in clashes with riot police, the Russian state-owned Channel 1 mentioned, among other things, a Spanish draft law [en] criminalizing online organization of public protests, as an example of the “much tougher” treatment of protesters by the “colleagues” of the Russian law enforcement officials “in the countries with the so-called established democracy.”
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Yes!, Yes!, Yes!, Russia I LOVE you! My Russian brothers and sisters you have come a long way! Now you should legalize Prostitution like my bothers and sisters in the Netherlands, Holland. I visited the Red Light District in Amsterdam, Holland last March. I spent some money there, and had the greatest time!!! There were very friendly people there from all over the world smiling, laughing and having fun. It was alive and exciting to be there. I am not the most handsom guy, but there I talked to several beautiful weman! I enjoyed myself very very much! Everyone there was having good fun. Sex is a great and wonderful thing. Most guys love to look at beautiful weman, and if they can be with a beautiful woman or two or three this is great! Please legalize Prostitution Russia! It will bring you money, beautiful weman, happy men, excitement, fun and more! Amsterdam, Holland’s Red Light District and its legalization of soft drugs especially marijuana is simply good. Holland has a thriving economy, good employment statistics, a happy population of smart, wonderful people. You can watch sexy television at night, buy sexy videos, see live sex shows and it is all wonderful and fantastic! I loved it there so much I told all my friends about it and I would love to return there! SEX BUSINESS IS GOOD BUSINESS! PLEASE LEGALIZE IT MY RUSSIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
It’s so great I had to say it twice! Yes! Do It! My apologies for any typing errors that got through.
Russia is proving itself a wonderful world leader again with its legalization of Prostitution! I want to visit its Red Light District as soon as it opens! If it will be anything like the Red Light District in Holland it will be fantastic! Maybe, instead of calling legalized Prostitution areas “Red Light Districts” we should start calling these areas “Green Light Districts.” Green traffic lights usually indicate it’s time for the driver to “go.” So green light districs could help to cause people to think that legalized Prostitution areas is a good place to go, because they are!!!! It is also true that young people grow up wiser, healthier, and much better adjusted when they have been taught about sexuality beginning at early ages! I am a professional teacher and have done a lot of academic research throughout my life! Please believe me! If the entire world would simply reaize that sex is something to be enjoyed, and make birth control devices and methods easily obtainable we could all get along with spending more time enjoying our lives. It is important to remember that as we make sexual activity and education more accepted and present we must make birth control objects and methods more accessible. LONG LIVE RUSSIA!!
Russia definitely should legalize cannabis and prostitution!! It’s madness to let all the money spent on those two commodities go to the gangs we hate so much.
But it is VERY important that there are checks to ensure the girls are operating willingly and that they could leave any time they wished. Legalized prostitution must not become legitimized slavery.
In Russia and around the world cannabis should be controlled by the *same laws* as alcohol. Not a single government has been able to eliminate the demand for cannabis. This unmet demand creates the perfect opportunity for criminals to get rich. They enter our neighborhoods selling their weed and bringing with them violence and easy access to pot by minors.
Legalize prostitution and control cannabis with the same laws we use for alcohol!!!