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Alexei Pushkov’s remarks were made in the winter of 2013, in the context of escalating tensions between Russia and the European Union (EU), when thousands of Ukrainians lined the streets of Kiev to protest against their government’s intensifying relationship with Russia, which threatened Ukraine’s deeper relations with the EU. As both Ukrainian society and state authorities weighed the tradeoffs of orienting themselves to “the East” or to “the West,” Pushkov’s warning to Ukrainians reflects the prominent role that lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) rights have come to play in geopolitical struggles across the region. His cautionary remarks harp on the idea that an alignment with Europe not only would result in forgoing decisive Russian economic support for Ukraine, but would also affect Ukrainian identity: national values and morals were at stake in the face of a rainbow-tinged European threat.

Of course, this means the expansion of the sphere of the so-called gay culture, which has now turned into the official policy of the EU.

Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the Russian Parliament’s Fo reign Affairs Com m i ttee, December 20131

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  1. Department of Political Science, Drexel University, USA

    Phillip M. Ayoub (Assistant Professor of Political Science) (Assistant Professor of Political Science)

  2. Department of Sociology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    David Paternotte (Assistant Professor of Sociology) (Assistant Professor of Sociology)

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Ayoub, P.M., Paternotte, D. (2014). Introduction. In: Ayoub, P.M., Paternotte, D. (eds) LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe. Gender and Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391766_1

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