Explicit Photos of Female Russian Officials Create Outrage—and Ratings

[Larry1]

What a headline!

Explicit Photos of Female Russian Officials Create Outrage—and Ratings

Strange epidemic of provocative pictures coincides with last week's blue moon

Some years ago, Helena Mironenko, 34, back then a middle-level government official, put a series of photos of herself online that caused uproar in her home city of Krasnoyarsk, the capital of a region three times bigger than France. On one of them, this young head of the Department for Cultural Mass Actions of the Krasnoyarsk Region Administration drinks alcohol from the big bottle sitting on the edge of a children’s sandbox in public park. On another, happily smiling, she shows her middle finger to the viewers, displaying a nail manicured with the color of the October Revolution. On the third, Mrs. Mironenko passionately kisses her red-haired girlfriend while fondling the woman’s breast...

Yes, Russia has changed, and long gone are the days when it was enough to just pull a tight T-shirt over one’s big breasts with the words “I Want Medvedev” (meaning then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev) to be appointed to the position of the director of the Head Department for the Management of Social Communications of Moscow Region, as has happened with 26-year-old Irina Pleshchova, one of the leaders of the pro-Putin “Nashi” movement...

http://observer.com/2015/08/explicit-photos-of-female-russian-officials-create-outrage-and-ratings

There are photos at the link above. I didn't post them because I didn't want to give any delicate readers the vapors.