The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Ukraine is obliged to pay a fine for refusing to register a same-sex marriage. "The Court concluded that the difference in approach in this matter, which consisted in the unjustified refusal of the applicants...
amounts to discrimination against applicants on the basis of their sexual orientation," the ECHR said in a press release. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky invited the government to work out the issue of creating an institution of registered civil partnership.