Saucy campaigning in Russia
In Russia, political campaigns might not be as important as they are in older democracies, but they are racier.Melody Dickison referred me to the video. I found the articles online because I didn't read the article Melody sent. Of course, I lost that article. Thanks, Melody.
By the way, this might not be safe for school or school computers (depending upon the standards and rules at your school).
Girls urged to strip to support Vladimir Putin as president
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…
And back in 2010…
Russian Students Strip for Putin’s Birthday
Two groups of female Russian journalism students have produced dueling calendars to mark Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s 58th birthday on Thursday.
The first calendar, which features 12 racy photographs of lingerie-clad students and come-hither captions like Miss February’s “How about a third time?” went on sale on Wednesday. As The Associated Press reports, “The release of the pinup calendar was announced by the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, whose spokeswoman Kristina Potupchik posted the images on her blog.”
On Thursday, another group of students responded to the pro-Putin calendar — “Vladimir Vladimirovich, We Love You! Happy Birthday, Mr Putin!” — with one of their own. The anti-Putin calendar shows six students with their mouths taped shut asking questions like, “Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?” in reference to the muckraking journalist who was gunned down on Mr. Putin’s birthday in 2006…
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