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Disgusting …’Smoking kills more people than Obama’ poster… in Moscow

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2e0505&semi;"><strong><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-large&semi;"><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disgusting and embarrassing that this is appearing on the streets of the Russian capital&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Soon they’ll be scaring kids with Obama rather than Baba Yaga&comma;” the witch from Russian folk tales&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;span> <&sol;strong><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8211&semi; Dmitry Gudkov&comma; Russia&&num;8217&semi;s sole liberal opposition MP<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;guim&period;co&period;uk&sol;img&sol;media&sol;095aa2d1725215cb5c2f3cf58087773fe5acc6f5&sol;0&lowbar;383&lowbar;720&lowbar;432&sol;master&sol;720&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;620&amp&semi;q&equals;85&amp&semi;auto&equals;format&amp&semi;sharp&equals;10&amp&semi;s&equals;a7d62203868ba9a2f6c2b810f3194d31" alt&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;guim&period;co&period;uk&sol;img&sol;media&sol;095aa2d1725215cb5c2f3cf58087773fe5acc6f5&sol;0&lowbar;383&lowbar;720&lowbar;432&sol;master&sol;720&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;620&amp&semi;q&equals;85&amp&semi;auto&equals;format&amp&semi;sharp&equals;10&amp&semi;s&equals;a7d62203868ba9a2f6c2b810f3194d31" &sol;><&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Russia’s only Liberal MP says poster&comma; which has no attribution&comma; is &OpenCurlyQuote;disgusting and embarrassing’<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A Moscow advert declaring that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;smoking kills more people than Obama” has gone viral&comma; becoming the latest in a string of actions condemning the US president as a mass killer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Dmitry Gudkov&comma; the sole liberal opposition MP in Russia’s parliament&comma; on Tuesday posted a photograph of the large poster&comma; which was in a metal-and-glass frame at a bus shelter on Moscow’s third ring road&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Smoking kills more people than Obama&comma; although he kills lots and lots of people&comma;” the poster read&comma; showing an illustration of the president smoking the last dregs of a cigarette&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Don’t smoke&comma; don’t be like Obama&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Gudkov wrote that it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disgusting and embarrassing that this is appearing on the streets of the Russian capital&period;” His Facebook post had received more than 1&comma;300 likes&comma; hundreds of positive and negative comments and extensive Russian media coverage&period;&vert;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Soon they’ll be scaring kids with Obama rather than Baba Yaga&comma;” the witch from Russian folk tales&comma; Gudkov later told the Guardian&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The advert has no attribution&comma; no author has come forward to claim it and Moscow city hall has not commented&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some have taken the anti-Obama ad as a reference to a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stop Obama&excl;” video posted last week that showed dozens of Russian students falling to the floor as if dead&comma; revealing a lone girl with a sign claiming that the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;president of the United States kills 875 people every week”&period; The call was posted the day after a video appeal to the United Nations in which students at universities around Russia declared that Obama should be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;punished for thousands of lost lives”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The videos&comma; which have each received more than 500&comma;000 views&comma; were uploaded on brand new YouTube accounts&comma; but one of the speakers in the UN appeal has been identified as the editor of a publication put out by the ruling United Russia party’s youth wing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In January&comma; a banner replacing the word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hope” in Barack Obama’s iconic 2008 election poster with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;killer” was hung from a residential building across from the US embassy in Moscow&period; In early&comma; February a video was broadcast on the sides of buildings in Moscow calling for Obama to be judged by a Hague war crimes tribunal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"img-2" class&equals;"element element-image img--portrait element--thumbnail fig--narrow-caption fig--has-shares ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"u-responsive-ratio" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;150&percnt;&semi;">&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"img-2" class&equals;"element element-image img--portrait element--thumbnail fig--narrow-caption fig--has-shares "><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"u-responsive-ratio" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;150&percnt;&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"u-responsive-ratio" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;150&percnt;&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"u-responsive-ratio" style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;150&percnt;&semi;"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Gudkov wrote that it was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disgusting and embarrassing that this is appearing on the streets of the Russian capital&period;” His Facebook post had received more than 1&comma;300 likes&comma; hundreds of positive and negative comments and extensive Russian media coverage&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Soon they’ll be scaring kids with Obama rather than Baba Yaga&comma;” the witch from Russian folk tales&comma; Gudkov later told the Guardian&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The advert has no attribution&comma; no author has come forward to claim it and Moscow city hall has not commented&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some have taken the anti-Obama ad as a reference to a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Stop Obama&excl;” video posted last week that showed dozens of Russian students falling to the floor as if dead&comma; revealing a lone girl with a sign claiming that the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;president of the United States kills 875 people every week”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;cut off<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The call was posted the day after <a class&equals;" u-underline" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Mk9xe9nHGPc">a video appeal to the United Nations <&sol;a>in which students at universities around Russia declared that Obama should be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;punished for thousands of lost lives”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"dfp-ad--inline1" class&equals;"js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--dfp ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ad-slot&lowbar;&lowbar;label">Advertisement<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The videos&comma; which have each received more than 500&comma;000 views&comma; were uploaded on brand new YouTube accounts&comma; but one of the speakers in the UN appeal has been identified as the editor of a publication put out by the ruling United <a class&equals;" u-underline" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;theguardian&period;com&sol;world&sol;russia">Russia<&sol;a> party’s youth wing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In January&comma; <a class&equals;" u-underline" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;&percnt;20http&sol;&sol;ria&period;ru&sol;society&sol;20160127&sol;1365910023&period;html">a banner replacing the word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hope” in Barack Obama’s iconic 2008 election poster with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;killer”<&sol;a> was hung from a residential building across from the US embassy in Moscow&period; In early&comma; February a video was broadcast on the sides of buildings in Moscow calling for Obama to be judged by a Hague war crimes tribunal&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In December&comma; Cossacks in the Krasnodar region <a class&equals;" u-underline" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kubnews&period;ru&sol;news&sol;2848&sol;">burnt crude effigies<&sol;a> of Obama and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo&gbreve;an as they chanted &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Russia&excl;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Putin&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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