There will be no gay-pride parade in Moscow, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said July 23.

"The city government will not allow holding this march ... because such demonstrations outrage the majority of the capital's population, are in effect propaganda of dissipation, and force upon society unacceptable norms of behavior," Luzhkov's press office said.

"[Homosexuality] goes against the traditional moral values of most Russians, as well as the canons of the main religious confessions in the city," the statement said.