Heh:
A picture depicting Vladimir Putin in full makeup has been banned in Russia.
The picture is cited on the Russian justice ministry’s list of banned
“extremist” materials – a list that is 4,074 entries long. No 4,071
states that the poster, depicting Putin with painted eyes and lips,
implies “the supposed nonstandard sexual orientation of the president of
the Russian Federation”.
It’s unclear exactly which image the ministry is talking about – but
it is believed to be similar to one used on signs during protests
against Russia’s anti-gay laws. It turns out there are quite a lot of photoshopped images in circulation that depict Putin in drag.
The headline is a bit deceptive though, as it seems the make up photo was caught up amongst many banned from one poster, and lots of makeup images still circulate:
Photoshopping makeup on to images of Putin has been common since Russia passed a law banning gay “propaganda” in 2013.
According to the Moscow Times, the ban came as a result of a verdict by a regional court in May 2016. A man named AV Tsvetkov uploaded the image alongside others that portrayed Putin and the prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev,
in Nazi uniforms. Court documents say he also shared racist images. The
court banned about a dozen of the pictures he uploaded between June
2013 and October 2014. As well as this, his Vkontakte profile was deleted.
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