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• A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• U2 ACCED OF GAY PROPAGANDA FOR ALBUM COVER

A RSIAN POLICIAN THKS U2'S ALBUM COVER IS 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

A Rsian legislator has acced Apple and the band U2 of vlatg the Rsian law "agast gay propaganda among mors" by uploadg U2's latt album, Songs of Innocence, to iTun ctomers….

A Rsian legislator has acced Apple and the band U2 of vlatg the Rsian law “agast gay propaganda among mors” by uploadg U2’s latt album, Songs of Innocence, to iTun ctomers worldwi, cludg Rsia, September 2014.

U2 ACCED OF GAY PROPAGANDA FOR ALBUM COVER

Alexanr Starovoov, a member of the Rsian State Duma, the lower chamber of Parliament, asked the Prosecutor’s Office to vtigate the cint and le whether me as a breach of the ntroversial legislatn adopted two years ago and wily viewed as a crackdown on the Rsian gay muny general. However, Rsia, where homophobic attus have been mon over the last uple of years, Starovoov’s terpretatn of the ver image don’t e as a surprise. In late 2013, a promoter of Lady Gaga‘s Rsian show was fed unr the “gay propaganda” law.

Last year, several Rsia hard-le officials, cludg legislator Valy Milonov, the ma proponent of the law “agast gay propaganda, ” ridiculed cross-drser Concha Wurst‘s Eurovisn Song Contt victory and lled for banng the sger om tourg Rsia and boyttg Eurovisn. Later the same year, followg Apple CEO Tim Cook‘s announcement that he is gay, a monument to Steve Jobs and Apple was removed om a St. Acrdg to The Guardian, the member of Rsia’s nservative LDPR party has asked his untry’s attorney general to vtigate Apple, which gave away the band’s latt album to more than 500 ln iTun ctomers, for distributg “gay propaganda” to the youths of Rsia.