Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union gay parades and the use of veiled schemes to lay off openly lesbian and gay persons from schools, child care centers, and other public institutions. The chief psychiatrist of Russia Zurab Kekelidze in his 2013 interview to Dozhd says that a part of the cases of homosexuality is a mental disorder, he counters the remark that the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders by stating that it is not true. Homosexuality, which is a mental disorder, was continuously defined as such by the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia in 2005 when its president Savenko expressed
ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders ICD-10 is an international statistical classification produced by the World Health Organization. It is used in health care and related industries in several countries around the world. Some have gone on to develop their own national enhancements, building off the international version of the classification. The fifth chapter of ICD-10 contains the "International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders." It is actually the official mental health system for the US as well, but even many professionals do not realize this due to the dominance of the DSM. WHO have made Chapter V available