MGU protest calendar

[Alina Israeli]

It all started with an erotic calendar:

http://www.ivanpobeda.com/post136663913/

The others were spoofs. For those who don't know, Putin is a gay icon  
in Russia as well as in the US:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-477089/Gay-Russians-claim-bare-chested-Putin-own.html
http://freethinker.co.uk/2007/12/12/gay-icon-putin-is-now-revered-as-%E2%80%98the-chosen-one%E2%80%99/


The female journalists are facing reprocussions already:

http://www.rian.ru/society/20101007/283243469.html


Oct 7, 2010, в 12:16 PM, naiman at BERKELEY.EDU написал(а):

> Today's Guardian has an article on an inventive (and brave) act of  
> protest
> by several MGU journalism students, a reaction to  (and serious  
> parody) of
> an earlier calendar intended as a birthday present to Putin.
> For a link to the story -- and to the calendar -- see below
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/07/russian-journalism-students-calendar
>
> http://liz-anderson.livejournal.com/76145.html
>
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Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
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