When you don’t get what you want in Russia, it turns out if you bug them long enough they might be ready to let you have it.

That’s what the LGBTI community in Russia’s northern city of Arkhangelsk found out, when the city mayor has said he will approve a Pride on 2 August.

Mayor Viktor Pavlenko said the activists had been ‘getting on my nerves’.

It will be held on the same day as Paratroopers Day, intended to celebrate the air forces 85th anniversary, known for a lot of men getting as drunk as possible.

‘On 2 August, we’ll let [the LGBTI movement] go ahead for sure. I guarantee it. To let off steam,’ Pavlenko reportedly said during a council meeting, according to Flashnord.

And so, LGBTI rights activists have now filed a request to hold an event for up to 100 people. And it is expected to go through, despite the nationwide ban on ‘gay propaganda’. But some have expressed concern over people’s safety.

According to the Moscow Times, a LGBTI activist in St Petersburg was attacked by drunk paratroopers on the same day in 2013.

Police attempted to arrest the man who started the fight, but let him go after his fellow paratroopers stood up for him, according to the video footage.