Pavel Lobkov, who has been a presenter on Russia’s main opposition television station, posted images of his bloodied nose on Facebook on Saturday.
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An openly homosexual Russian journalist said on Saturday December 30 that he was beaten in a park in central Moscow, an attack he links to his sexual orientation. Pavel Lobkov, who was notably a presenter on the opposition television channel Dojdposted images of his bloody nose on Facebook.
“The smashed head of a pedal beaten in the Etangs du Patriarch park”, he wrote in a message accompanying these photos, without further details. This residential area, a 35-minute walk from Red Square, and a popular walking spot for Muscovites, made famous by the novel The Master and Marguerite by Mikhail Bulgakov.
The AFP was not immediately able to verify the circumstances of this attack. In Russia, repression against LGBT+ people is getting tougher, with the country positioning itself as a standard bearer of values “traditional” in the face of the supposed decadence of the West.
