An online campaign calls for young Russians to show their support for Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by ripping their clothes off
An online campaign calls for young Russians to show their support for Vladimir Putin in a presidential vote by ripping their clothes off
Young women across Russia have been called on to show their support for Vladimir Putin in an unusual way: by ripping off their clothes.
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| Diana from a video says she is crazy about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin |
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The unexpected campaign has been launched by a group calling itself the Putin Army, which posted a slick video online at the weekend featuring a trio of young women announcing a competition.
"I'm just crazy about a man who changed our country," says a voiceover, as we see Diana walking through Moscow, while the camera frequently hovers over her sizeable bust.
"He's a great politician, and an amazing man. He's Vladimir Putin," she says, adding that despite the millions who admire him, there are some who "pour dirt on him, maybe because they are scared of him, or because they themselves are weak".
Later in the video, Diana meets two nubile friends sunbathing by the riverbank, and they daub "I'll tear [clothes off] for Putin" onto skimpy T-shirts in red paint.
The video ends as they rip the T-shirts off. They ask other "young, smart and beautiful" girls to "tear off something for Putin" and post a video of it online.
The best entrant will win an iPad. It is unclear who is behind the Putin Army, but the video is professionally produced, and bears the hallmarks of one of the pro-Kremlin youth organisations such as Nashi.
Presidential elections are due next year, and many expect Putin to return to the job he did for eight years until 2008.
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