Anti-gay law issues 'invented'

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has claimed the controversy over the country’s anti-gay law is “an invented problem” by Western mass media.

Debate over the law, which was introduced in June and makes it illegal to give under 18s information about homosexuality, has intensified during the World Championships in Moscow and threatens to overshadow the build-up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year.