Igor Kochetkov

Kochetkov has been active in the opposition to the 2013 Russian law that bans promotion of homosexuality to minors.

[1] He has blamed the law for legitimizing and increasing violence against gays.

[2][3] In September 2013, Kochetkov along with other Russian human rights activists met with US President Barack Obama in Saint Petersburg.

[4] Along with Alexey Davydov he was named one of the world's 100 top thinkers in 2013 by the magazine Foreign Policy "for fighting Russia's state-sponsored homophobia".

[3] Kochetkov was along with Frank Mugisha, Sunil Babu Pant and ILGA nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian Labour Parliamentarians Anette Trettebergstuen and Håkon Haugli.