{"id":145903,"date":"2011-12-01T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=145903"},"modified":"2011-12-01T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:36:32","slug":"russia-art-group-parodies-benetton-kissing-politicians-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/01\/russia-art-group-parodies-benetton-kissing-politicians-campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"Russia Art Group Parodies Benetton Kissing Politicians Campaign (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late Wednesday night, activists with notorious art group <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/monolog.tv\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Monolog<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> pasted in the streets of Moscow posters of kissing party leaders competing for seats in the upcoming Dec. 4 elections of Russia&#8217;s State Duma (parliament), reports Newsru.com.<\/p>\n<p>The posters are a parody of the recent <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/17\/benetton-pulls-ad-showing-pope-kissing-an-imam-after-outrage-from-vatican.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">controversial Benetton campaign<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> featuring various state and religious leaders in a lip-locked embrace. In Monolog&#8217;s version, Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinksy (below, left) is embracing Speaker of the State Duma, United Russia party leader Boris Gryzlov (below, right). While in another poster, State Duma Vice Chair and Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky&#8217;s lips are caressing those of Communist Party of Russia First Secretary Gennady Zyuganov (second image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145850 aligncenter\" title=\"Unhate1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The words &#8220;Come to the polls and vote for all&#8221; (in a touch of sarcasm) accompanies the embracing politicians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145851 aligncenter\" title=\"Unhate2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Unhate2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists with notorious art group Monolog pasted in the streets of Moscow posters of kissing party leaders competing for&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35285,35287,35284,35283,10773,10254,35288,35286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}