On the phone: Elton John, Putin discuss gay rights in Russia


The Russian president called Sir Elton after the famous British singer told media about his wish to discuss Putin’s ‘ridiculous’ attitude to the rights of sexual minorities:

Putin is not the only post-Soviet politician whom the composer wanted to talk about gay rights with. On September, 13 Sir Elton John met with the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) forum in Kyiv and asked to help Ukrainian LGBT community.  

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