February 2014

Dmitry Chizhevsky in a Saint Petersburg hospital, where he was treated for a month and a half, following an attack on an LGBT meeting. Doctors were not able to save his vision in his left eye. Image by Misha Friedman. Russia, 2013. Source: Pulitzercenter.org

Being different in Russia is not celebrated, it is prosecuted. The country's LGBT community lives in constant fear. Until recently, there were only random attacks by religious zealots, but this year it became a government-led war. Source: Pulitzercenter.org