Putin as gay clown

Not now Yes please. The man was convicted last year, his social media account was shut down, and he was placed in psychiatric care. InRussian authorities began shutting down websites of Putin critics, and restricting nearly all anonymous blogs, The Washington Post reported.

Russia has banned a picture depicting President Vladimir Putin as a potentially gay clown. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. More about Russia Vladimir Putin Memes. Those include an article about a theoretical coup, which landed gay for fans philosophy professor in detention.

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The Russian government made it illegal for people to distribute memes of Vladimir Putin as a gay clown. The saga of the banned Putin clown actually began years ago, when a man posted a slew of offensive images to a Russian Facebook clone.

Because, you know, it's been banned. A Kremlin spokesman told Russia's state-run news service, Tass, that he hadn't seen the Putin-clown picture, though he was sure it didn't bother the president. Russian news outlets are having trouble reporting exactly which image of the Internet's many Putin-gay-clown memes is now illegal to share.

The Kremlin has also become fairly adept at controlling what people say about each other on the Internet. But gay Putin memes have proliferated as Russia has cracked down on both sexual liberties and online speech in recent years.

And a former naval captain from Rostov who reposted an antiwar report about Ukraine got a two-year suspended sentence and one year of probation for inciting hatred and animosity. The Post reported on evidence of a government plan to block online announcement of an antigovernment rally in Moscow last weekend, after arresting hundreds at the last protest.

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Russia Outlaws Images Depicting : After the Russian government banned a digitally altered image depicting President Vladimir Putin wearing lipstick and mascara – widely reported in global media as a “gay clown” meme - Sergei Nikitin, Director of Amnesty International’s Moscow office, said: “In its twisted definition of justice, the Russian authorities have chosen to use anti-extremism legislation to silence peaceful

He's more commonly associated with sleeping memes than sexuality issues, though inhe signed an order banning transgender people from driving. A year later, the paper reported, Putin signed a law imposing prison sentences for people who give so much as thumbs-up to a forbidden online post.

Last year, United Press International and other outlets reported on a single mother sentenced to community service for reposting a cartoon of Putin looking at a map with a knife in his hand. They included openly racist and anti-immigrant posts, according to Radio Free Europe.