MOSCOW, October 31, 2006 (GayRussia.ru)  –  One of the main organisers of antigay protests and hysteria against the first ever gay pride march in Moscow earlier this year has been sacked by the Liberal Democratic party (LDPR).

He is Nikolai Kuryanovich. A deputy of the State Duma, lower chamber of Russian parliament,

The LDPR is one of the most stable parties in contemporary Russia and has been represented in all parliaments since the collapse of the Soviet Union.  It is also considered as the party of one man – Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Today, Kuryanovich was sacked from the party – the decision was taken almost unanimously, with two abstentions.

According to Igor Lebedev, the leader of LDPR group in the Duma and son of Vladimir Zhirinovski, Kuryanovich was dismissed “for systematic breaches of party and faction discipline”.

Nikolai Kuryanovich said that he considers the decision of his party as “absolutely without foundation”.

“I have always followed those principles which the party proclaimed – ‘We are for Russians, we are for poor’. I have been told that I should be more politically correct, more tolerant”.

The decision by LDPR is considered to be due to the increasing damage that deputy Kuryanovich is causing to his party.

He was actively supporting the extremists fighting against gays and lesbians on the streets of Moscow in May.  He himself went out in front on Moscow City Hall on May 27 to talk to journalists proclaiming the actions of gays as illegal and sponsored by the perverted West.  He fully supported decision of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov who banned the first gay pride.

More recently, deputy Kuryanovich has been actively involved in the organization of the so called “Russian March” on the streets of Moscow by nationalists and fascists scheduled for November 4 – the day of national unity in Russia.

The mayor of Moscow has denied permission for the march, but organisers have vowed to go out on the streets without permission.

Leading Russian gay rights activist and the organizer of Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev whose interview appeared next to the interview of Kuryanovich in the leading Russian newspaper Moskovski Komsomolets after Moscow gay pride in June, said that his human rights organization “fully supports the decision of Russian Liberal Democrats”.

“Not so long ago we received the letter from the leader of the party Vladimir Zhirinovski in which he expressed his support to all citizens of Russia,” he added. “Membership of Kuryanovich in the party created a serious conflict with the views of the party leader”.

It is widely believed that deputy Kuryanovich’s ‘rise to scandalous fame’ became unbearable for Vladimir Zhirinovsky before the next parliamentary elections scheduled for December 2007.  The leader of LDPR decided to get rid of the ambitious nationalist who went too far in his support for extremist activities.

Deputy Kuryanovich risks to loose his mandate of the deputy and parliamentary privileges in just over a year period as no political party in Russia will risk putting him on their party electoral list. Without the mandate of the deputy Kuryanovich can become target of prosecution department for his statements and actions which contradicts Russian Criminal Code.

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