近日俄罗斯发起了一场网上宣传活动,鼓动年轻女性用脱衣的方式来支持即将参加大选的普京。
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 Sunday.
Called "Putin's Army," it features a video of a blonde student called Diana who struts1 along Moscow's streets in high heels and a black suit before scrawling2 "I will tear my clothes off for Putin" on a white top in red lipstick3 and starting to undo4(取消,解开) her clothes.
Inviting5 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 reins6 to his protege(门徒,被保护者) 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 Soviet7 era, nudity(裸露) in advertising8 was taboo9 but has since become widespread, a fact which has outraged10 Russian feminists11 who say it only intensifies12 an already sexualized culture where prostitution is common.
It is unclear who orchestrated(安排) the campaign which was posted on the blog of parliamentarian Kirill Shchitov, from Putin's ruling United Russia party.
In October, a band of journalism13 students posed in lingerie(女内衣裤) for a calendar for Putin's 58th birthday.