Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepped out of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s shadow long enough on Tuesday to fire Moscow’s larger-than-life mayor, rattling a political establishment that until now has accepted Putin as the nation’s undisputed authority. The mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, has ruled Russia’s biggest and wealthiest city since 1992 with an authority that would have... 

Yuri Luzhkov, Christian Mayor of Moscow While queers in America viciously antagonize Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, because she believes in traditional marriage, queers attempting to demonstrate in Moscow are learning a painful lesson about normal, healthy attitudes. Thirty queer activists who were attempting to demonstrate in front of Moscow University to promote a homosexually oriented “Eurovision”...