Human rights chief reacts to call for checking ‘sexual orientation’ of officials

Russia’s rights officer dismissed the proposition sparked by a series of gay scandals

There is no real way to check the sexuality of state officials as part of a vetting process, the head of Russia’s Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, said on Tuesday, dismissing such a concept as dubious. His statement came after several Russian MPs floated the idea of determining the candidates’ sexual preferences before appointing them to government positions.