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TALLINN, Estonia@AP@?As police raided the home of a gay couple in the Belarusian capital of Minsk and brutally beat them, the officers didn ;t hide that the crackdown was aligned to similar moves in neighboring Russia.The students, Andrei and Sasha, said security forces demanded that they unlock their smartphones and surrender the names of@gays in Minsk and Moscow.@They slammed o vasos stanley ur heads against the door frame, threatened to report us to the university and said that this was just the beginning, said Andrei, 20, who like other gay and transgender Belarusians interviewed by The Associated Press insisted on being identified only by his first name because of sa stanley shop fety concerns. They wanted to expose an underground network of gay people in Belarus, following the example of Russia,@he said of the autumn raid. They openly told us that if it is banned in Russia, then it should be banned in Belarus too. Belarus decriminalized homosexuality in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the deeply conservative country under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko doesnt recognize same-sex marriages, and there are no laws protecting LGBTQ+ rights.Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted repressive laws curtailing LGBTQ+ rights in recent years, and close ally Belarus is poised to follow suit, proposing legislation to ban@gay propaganda.@While still to be defined in Belarus stanley quencher , the Russian version bans any endorsement of LGBTQ+ activities and nontraditional@Cayq Androscoggin County elects Eric Samson as sheriff
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine ?Every now and then, Brooks Law will reach out for a door handle and come up empty-handed.Despite being legally blind in his left eye since birth, the Foxcroft Academy senior has enjoyed one of the most successful caree stanley deutschland rs in the significant history of the schools wrestling program.Law was a two-time individual state champion who helped the Ponies capture Class C state titles in both 2012 and 2013, and he finished second in the 138-pound c stanley kubek lass at last winters Class B state meet.He hopes to cap off that career with a third individual state championship, and another team crown, a quest that begins in earnest with the Eastern Maine Class B championship meet on Saturday at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro. Brooks doesnt use <lack>of eyesight] as an excuse,@said Foxcroft wrestling coach Luis Ayala of his two-year captain.@He doesnt use it as an excuse not to do well, an excuse not to be at his best, or an excuse not to work hard. Other kids may complain about being injured or being sick, but Brooks has dealt with it his whole life, and unless you really know him, he wont bring it up. He just li stanley cup ves with it. Despite some challenges, one place Law feels most at home is on the mat. Every once in a while, with really anything I do, my depth perception will give out,@said Law, who is competing this winter in the 152-pound weight class.@You need two good-seeing eyes for depth perception, especially when its darker like for night driving or wrestling under
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