Other than to say it sucks, I don't know what to say about this attack on peaceful gay demonstrators in Russia, also described here:

Orthodox Christians, Russian ultra-nationalists and skinheads attacked a handful of gays who showed up by the Kremlin to put flowers to the Unknown Soldier Memorial. Riot police detained up to 120 people that day, among them journalists and human rights activists, mony of whom now intend to file a complaint to protest their unlawful detention and harsh treatment.

When Moscow's mayor can abuse fundamental freedoms with impunity, it is doubtful that Russia is fit to hold the presidency of the Council of Europe - or even be a member.

President Putin's silence is damning. He has said nothing in defence of the right to protest or of the human rights of Russia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Worst of all, The Russian police were in on the attacks.

I'm not sure it's entirely correct to label them all "right wing" though. As the Miami Herald points out, these attitudes are also vintage Stalinism:

Russian society's intolerance for gay men and women is rooted in the Soviet era, when homosexuality carried a penalty of up to five years in prison. A poll conducted in 1989 found that a third of Russians favored extermination of the country's gay population, and 30 percent favored segregating them from the rest of society, according to Igor Kon's 1995 book, "The Sexual Revolution in Russia." Only 6 percent of the poll's respondents favored supporting the gay community.

"During the Soviet period, women who were lesbians were locked up in psychiatric wards, treated as if they were insane and given medication normally given to schizophrenics," said Yevgenia Debryanskaya, a longtime gay activist and owner of Moscow's 12 Volts Club. "That same kind of homophobia that we had during Soviet times exists today."

One of those religious leaders, Talgat Tadzhuddin, a top Russian Muslim cleric, warned that Russian Muslims would take to the streets and flog gays if the parade were permitted.