Actor Will Smith slapped a male reporter who kissed him at the Moscow première of Men In Black 3.

As reported by TMZ, the footage shows Ukrainian reporter Vitalii Sediuk as he lunges to embrace the actor and kiss him.

Smith responds by pushing the reporter away, and says: ‘What the hell is your problem, buddy?’ The actor then gives Sediuk a backhanded slap.

After a pause and as the actor moves away to the next interview, he says: ‘He tried to kiss me on the mouth! He’s lucky I didn’t sucker punch him.’

A gay teenager in Russia who was put into a drug rehab center after coming out to his father has been released following a 'seige' by activists.

Ivan Kharchenko spent 12 days in Moscow's Marshak facility for alleged drug abuse and alcoholism, but was last night sprung from the clinic by campaigners including activist Dmitry Aleshkovsky, who tweeted that his supporters staged an improvised seige.

The Side by Side lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival, which is based in St Petersburg, is coming to Moscow this year.

Local authorities have attempted to ban the festival repeatedly since its inception in 2008. It was held for the first time in St Petersburg, where it is still based, but puts on regional events in other cities.

The two gay activists arrested in St Petersburg on Thursday (5 April) have been released by a court.

They were the first two people arrested in the Russian city under its new legislation which bans ‘the promotion of homosexuality to minors’ and had faced fines of 5,000 roubles ($172 €125) each and 15 days imprisonment if found guilty.

Russian activists plan to protest during Madonna's concerts in St Petersburg after the superstar refused to cancel her shows over the city's 'gay gag' law.

The singer last week defied calls to boycott the city, saying she was a 'freedom fighter' and would use the concert to speak out against the new legislation which bans 'homosexual propoganda'.

A Moscow-based journalist has today urged pop idol Madonna to cancel a concert in St Petersburg on 9 August because of the ‘homosexual propaganda’ law in the city which went into effect on Saturday.

Russia’s most famous gay activist traveled to the city of Kostroma today (12 March) to challenge the region’s ban on ‘promoting’ homosexuality to minors.

The homophobic Kostroma law was introduced at the end of the last month and its introduction was overshadowed by the passing of a similar law in St Petersburg, which attracted global criticism and protests.

One of Europe’s most celebrated football coaches, José Mourinho, has been caught on camera apparently making a gay slur.

Mourinho is currently coach of Spanish superclub Real Madrid, he was previously at Chelsea in Britain, and is nicknamed ‘The Special One’.

He made the comments while kicking a ball around on a snowy soccer pitch in Moscow on Monday (20 February), prior to the Champion’s League match between Real Madrid and Moscow yesterday (21 February).

Passengers landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport today were greeted with a massive 20-metre wide banner which could be seen seconds before their aircraft touched down.

The banner was part of a ‘day of action’ organised by gay activists in Moscow to protest the ‘forced marriage’ by Russia’s leading airline Aeroflot on one of its gay flight attendants, Maxim Kupreev – and to mark the 89th birthday of the airline.

Five activists protesting a bill that would criminalise the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in St Petersburg were arrested today as the Legislative Assembly gave the measure its second reading.

The five were protesting in front of the assembly building. They were charged with demonstrating illegally and resisting the police, according to Just Out, the St Petersburg LGBT group.

Gay activists in Russia are planning to ask air passengers to boycott Aeroflot, Russia’s leading airline and not to use its services until the creation of equal conditions for all workers.

The call comes following the revelation that gay flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was forced by his employers to enter into heterosexual marriage with his former high school girlfriend following his announcement last year to create an LGBT group within the company to fight for the protection of the rights of homosexual employees.

A small group of LGBT Russians have taken their protest against laws intended to silence their movement to every region - and last night they produced images of their protesting arrest in front of the Kremlin.

Their protest, signaled on social media to happen in another Moscow location, in fact occurred in front of the most famous location in all of Russia. Within seconds they were swarmed by police.