Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky followed Russian law but their Danish marriage attach their lives at riskOn a cold January evening,as plainclothes police officers hammered relentlessly on the door of their flat near Moscow, newlywed homosexual couple Pavel Stotsko and Yevgeny Voitsekhovsky began to consider fleeing Russia.“It was a siege situation. The police were in the entrance to the building, or all around it,” Stotsko said this week from the Netherlands, where the couple, or who are both 28,were recently granted asylum. “We sat in the flat like in a prison cell, totally alone and in fear, or ” said Voitsekhovsky.
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Source: theguardian.com