Politics are just so much more interesting in Russia

[HVC]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2011/07/17/18431866.html

Girls urged to strip to support Putin as president

An online campaign has been launched in Russia urging young women to support Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by taking off their clothes, a lawmaker's site showed on Sunday.

 

Called "Putin's Army", it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts along Moscow's streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling "I will tear my clothes off for Putin" on a white top in red lipstick and starting to undo her clothes.

Inviting girls to strip off for Putin for the chance of winning an iPad2, the campaign comes ahead of the March 2012 presidential vote. Putin was president between 2000-2008 before handing the reins to his protege Dmitry Medvedev.

Widely seen as Russia's key decision-maker, Putin may return to the Kremlin next year.

"The goal: For Putin to be president!" said a statement on its page on social networking site vkontakte.ru/armiaputina, Russia's answer to Facebook.
 

During Russia's Soviet era, nudity in advertising was taboo but has since become widespread, a fact which has outraged Russian feminists who say it only intensifies an already sexualised culture where prostitution is common.

It is unclear who orchestrated the campaign which was posted on the blog of parliamentarian Kirill Shchitov, from Putin's ruling United Russia party.

In October, a band of journalism students posed in lingerie for a calendar for Putin's 58th birthday.

*Place Timmyism here*

[LaCroix]

put in for putin?

[Valmy]

Called “Putin’s Army”, it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts along Moscow’s streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling “I will tear my clothes off for Putin” on a white top in red lipstick and starting to undo her clothes.

They had that to work with and the only picture with the article is of Putin?  Total fail.

[Admiral Yi]

It seems to work pretty well in Italy.

[Ideologue]

I wish Obama would fatally irradiate his political enemies too.

[Solmyr]

Ukrainian girls take off their clothes in protest against the government, so it balances out.

[dps]

It seems to work pretty well in Italy.

Putin gets a lot of votes in Italy?

[crazy canuck]

Ukrainian girls take off their clothes in protest against the government, so it balances out.

We dont get protests like that here.

[Malthus]

Ukrainian girls take off their clothes in protest against the government, so it balances out.

We dont get protests like that here.

What, never heard of the Doukhobors? They made public nudity as protest in BC famous.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhobor

[MadImmortalMan]

We don't want protests like that here... 

[Zoupa]

I wish Obama would fatally irradiate his political enemies too.

POTM.

Why did we get rid of that?

[DontSayBanana]

Russian girls stripping to support, Ukrainian girls stripping to protest, but I can't get my hyper-politicized, hot Czech friend to lose her shirt.  I feel cheated.

[crazy canuck]

Ukrainian girls take off their clothes in protest against the government, so it balances out.

We dont get protests like that here.

What, never heard of the Doukhobors? They made public nudity as protest in BC famous.   

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhobor

He said girls and you thought of old fat hags?

[HVC]

We had something similar in ontario to apeal (repeal?) the topless women laws. Only protesters who showed up to the public nudity were the ones you really didn't want to see. a shame really. "Slut walk" had a better turn out.