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*Every* Pride is progress. Last week @KharkivPride took place in 🇺🇦 Ukraine. Here's a short thread on their amazing achievements! Pic: #KharkivPride 
A group of activists made a performance for the proper investigation of hate crimes towards the LGBT+ community near the local Police directorate. Watch: facebook.com/watch/?v=31461… #KharkivPride
A group of activists and an LGBT+ choir made a flashmob “Lesbian Wedding” at the Central Registry Office, where a similar action was violently attacked back in 2017 by a far-right group. Watch: facebook.com/watch/?v=21364… #KharkivPride
After 17 far-right extremists were detained after #KharkivPride violence (3 still detained), Tradition and Order (TiP) held a small rally in support of their comrades in front of Ukraine's interior ministry in Kyiv.
Also present - and front and centre - was C14's Yevhen Karas
Also present - and front and centre - was C14's Yevhen Karas
As we wrote in a @bellingcat investigation in August, neo-Nazi C14 is bent on redefining itself, using affiliated organizations to present a sanitized image to Ukrainians, including those in mainstream politics/society who have defended and supported them
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Part of this includes an apparent shift away from supporting overt violence, including against LGBT+ Ukrainians.
It also comes w/ an extreme sensitivity to criticism, more so than w/ any other far-right group we've covered (e.g., making a 3-minute propaganda video attacking us)
It also comes w/ an extreme sensitivity to criticism, more so than w/ any other far-right group we've covered (e.g., making a 3-minute propaganda video attacking us)
The first, Sofia Lapina. She describes herself as an organizing committee member of the march, and is employed at LGBT Human Rights Center "Our World". Her most recent post implies that a rival pro-family march on the same day is Russian.
"Our World" NGO has pages on legal action that ones can take against police & employers, resources for how government officials should help homosexuals, and activism guides. There is also a page on their staff who aids homosexuals legally & financially.
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, is hosting its first-ever pride march - it's underway now (photo from @HromadskeUA)
Meanwhile far-right groups have led a much smaller counter-protest, a "march for traditional values," wearing masks to conceal their identities.
A report (in Ukrainian) from @HromadskeUA: estimated 2,000 marchers, 500 in the far-right counter-protest march; some far-right marchers threw eggs at pride march participants. No other major incidents reported.
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