In November 2008, Project GayRussia.Ru extended its advocacy work into Belarus where it launched the Slavic Gay Pride movement with its local partner Gaybelarus.by.

GayRussia.Ru tracked and revealed the homophobia of various Russian politicians and public figures, including the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.

The organization, headed by Nikolai Alekseev, was created to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Russia.

Among other activists are Nikolaj Bajev who writes articles and attends international LGBT conferences, Irina Fet who attempted to marry her partner in Moscow on 12 May 2009, Anton Sutyagin who coordinates the organization in Belarus and Yuri Gavrikov who is in charge of the logistics of the campaigns.

The most famous ongoing campaign is for Freedom of Assembly which is often referred to by the media as the "Moscow Pride battle".

The mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov said on several occasions that he will not authorize any public action by gays in the streets of the Russian capital.

[14] Project GayRussia.Ru also extended its campaign outside Moscow and attempted to organize street public actions in Tambov in October 2008,[15][16] and Ryazan[17] in April 2009.

Russian judges denied taking into consideration the different cases set as a precedent by the European Court when making their decision.

In the case of Bączkowski v Poland the Court ruled that the ban of the Warsaw Pride in 2005 was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was ratified by the Russian Federation in 1998.

[27] In April 2009, Project GayRussia.Ru decided to take the ban of the July 2008 protest to the UN Human Rights Committee.

[28][29] In its final report, the committee expressed its concerns about violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons as well as the systematic discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation including hate speech by public officials, religious leaders and in the media.

On 14 September 2007, Project GayRussia.Ru organized a protest in front of the Minister of Health asking for the instruction to be amended.

[38][39] As of July 2013, this campaign still marks the only discrimination against homosexuals repealed in Russia since the decriminalisation of male same sex relations in 1993.

In April 2010, the UN Human Rights Committee opened the case of Irina Fet and started communicating with both parties.

[53][54][55] On 26 September 2009, Gayrussia hosted with its partner gaybelarus an LGBT human rights conference in the five-star hotel Crown Plaza in Minsk.

Mr Jean-Eric Holzapfel, head of the delegation, insisted in his opening speech on the necessity to fight homophobia in Europe and in Belarus in particular.

The conference delegates discussed and adopted a joint resolution on the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons in Belarus.

The text, which will be sent to President Alexander Lukashenko, the government and the parliament, is calling for a ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the prosecution of hate speech, the recognition of equal rights of same-sex couples, and the recognition of 17 May as the Day Against Homophobia.

In March 2006, Project GayRussia.Ru was an Iron Donor of the XXIII ILGA World Conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland.

[64] Project GayRussia.Ru was awarded the Europahøjskolen Prize (Denmark) in December 2009 for its work for the rights of minorities in Russia.

A retrospective of the work accomplished by the organization from May 2005 until December 2008 is available at GayRussia Celebrates Three and a Half Years of Gay Activism[permanent dead link‍].