MOSCOW (Reuters) - There will be no discrimination against gay people during the Winter Olympics in Sochi next month, a Russian lawmaker said on Monday.
Former Olympic ice-skating champion Svetlana Zhurova, 42, who is a member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party in parliament, said homophobia was hard to eradicate in Russia but the host nation would stick to the Olympic Charter banning discrimination.
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