Two Russian influencers have been forced to publicly apologize for a lesbian kiss posted online.
Vlada Alchaeva, 24, and her friend Vika, 19, were chased by police and will also face heavy fines for disobeying laws banning LGBT “propaganda.”
Police told the pair they could “damage the psyche” of minors who watched their video under draconian new laws.
The Putin regime’s new laws come despite the scandalous “lesbian” gang tATu, which thrived in the dictator’s early years in power.
Putin even invited singers Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Vlada Alchaeva, 24, and her friend Vika, 19, in a kiss published on the Internet. They were chased by police and will also face heavy fines for disobeying laws banning LGBT “propaganda.”
Vlada and Vika filmed their social media video at a pizzeria in Krasnodar, a region near the war zone where Putin has an official residence and a private palace.
The police take Vlada and Vika away. Police told the pair they could “damage the psyche” of minors who watched their video under draconian new laws.
Vlada and Vika filmed their social media video at a pizzeria in Krasnodar, a region near the war zone where Putin has an official residence and a private palace.
“It was all a joke, just to laugh a little,” said Vlada, who posted the kiss on Instagram, which is banned in Russia, where she has 165,000 followers and 440,000 on TikTok.
During a police interrogation, an officer asked: “Did you understand that your video could be viewed by minors and that the French kiss you gave them could have damaged their psyche?”
Vika replied: ‘I didn’t think that would have influenced anyone.
‘I did not think on that. I did not know.’
He was asked: “So do you often kiss women in real life?”
She replied: ‘No, no, no! It was just a joke. I am very sorry, I am very sorry.
‘Only now am I beginning to realize what we have done. And I understand that we shouldn’t have done it.”
Vlada Alchaev (left) and Vika (right). During a police interrogation, an officer asked: “Did you understand that your video could be viewed by minors and that the French kiss you gave them could have damaged their psyche?” Vika replied: “I didn’t think this could have influenced anyone.”
Lena Katina (left) and Yulia Volkova in the band tATu The scandalous band thrived in Putin’s first years in power.
Vlada also offered a humble apology for violating the new rules in Russia.
She said: “We started filming when we were kissing and I proposed to her, which we really regret and won’t do again.”
In the video, Vlada proposes to him and then they kiss passionately.
She later told a journalist: ‘I would never trade (male genitalia) for (female genitalia), I love men.
‘I do not support any prohibited movement.
‘For some reason, people thought (the proposal in the video) was real.
‘She (Vika) and I are friends.
‘But I have always had relationships with men. The goal was to attract attention.’
Vlada faces a fine of up to £1,750 and Vika faces a fine of up to £875.