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"Stephen Fry has revealed his support for a Russian TV presenter who was fired after coming out as gay live on air. Fry tweeted that 37-year-old Anton Krasovsky is &amp;quot;a brave man&amp;quot; and told the world: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t let Russia off the hook on this one.&amp;quot;   Krasovsky was presenting on cable network KontrTV earlier this year when he announced: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m gay, and I&amp;#039;m just the same person as you, my dear audience, as President Putin, as Prime Minister Medvedev and the deputies of our Duma.&amp;quot; However, the TV host was sacked the same night, while videos of the announcement were deleted from YouTube and the KontrTV website. What an incredibly brave man - come on world don&amp;#039;t let Russia off the hook on this one http://t.co/tChX9RZKPt \u00E2\u20AC\u201D Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) August 14, 2013 Krasovsky, who is now unemployed after helping to launch KontrTV, later told The Independent: &amp;quot;&amp;#039;I have made a lot of money in television and I understood that I&amp;#039;d lose everything. But I also understood that I couldn&amp;#039;t do anything else. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t do it so that I would get hundreds of likes on my Facebook page. I did it because I wanted them to hear it in the Kremlin. And they heard it, and were surprised.&amp;quot; The country&amp;#039;s anti-gay laws have come under the spotlight recently. Fry has asked David Cameron to back a campaign to stop the 2014 Winter Olympics taking place in Russia. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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