Russian rapper sentenced to 15-day prison after backlash over ‘almost-naked’ party; Vladimir Putin reacts
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Russia's popular rapper Nikolai Vasilyev, who wore just a single sock to the party was sentenced to 15 days in prison for the propaganda of "non-traditional sexual relations." The rapper was also fined with fined 200,000 roubles ($2,182), as per Reuters. "To hold such events at a time when our guys are dying in the (Ukrainian) special military operation and many children are losing their fathers is cynical," said Yekaterina Mizulina, director of Russia's League for a Safe Internet, a body founded with the authorities support.
Amid the backlash, Anastasia Ivleeva also released a couple of videos apologizing to the people of Russia, but no one seems to care much as a group of individuals is suing her for damages worth 1 billion roubles ($10.9 million) for “moral suffering." The Kremlin was particularly angry as Vladimir Putin is looking to start a fresh tenure from March in a conservative and anti-liberal direction. The Russian President has recently pushed an increasingly conservative social agenda as he urged families to have eight or more children.
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