Just to make my previous post more clear: I am not denying that Russian LGBT activists are getting some help from foreign sources. Sometimes this help comes in the form of "strategic advice" (for example, suggestions on how to organize an email campaign efficiently); sometimes it comes in the form of money. I know quite well from reading gay newspapers in the States that some LGBT groups here have asked for monetary donations to assist Russian activists with the payment of police fines, for example.

But donations from abroad do not make Russia's gay-rights movement "non native."