The Kamchatka peninsula on Russia's eastern coast.<br/> <br />A man was murdered here last week because he was gay, according to investigators on Monday.<br/> <br />Authorities say three men stabbed and trampled the unnamed victim to death.<br/> <br />The suspects, who are under arrest, then put the 39-year-old's body in his car and set in on fire.<br/> <br />It's the second such killing in less than a month.<br/> <br />Gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev says the violence will persist, as he says "authorities are interested in making the situation even worse."<br/> <br />Activists fear the violence is being fuelled by a bill backed by Putin's conservative allies in parliament that would ban spreading so-called "homosexual propaganda" among minors.<br/> <br />Critics say the bill could effectively ban gay rights protests and events in Russia.<br/> <br />Homosexuality was decriminalised after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.<br/> <br />But a poll by the independent Levada Center last month found 38 percent of Russians belie
