Court upholds rejection of Russia’s first lesbian marriage | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “A Moscow court rejected on Thursday a lesbian couple’s appeal against an earlier ruling upholding a registry office’s refusal to register their marriage.
Irina Shepitko and Irina Fedotova-Fet attempted to get married in Russia in May 2009, but were turned away. Registry officials citied the Family Code that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”