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The Russian embassy in Switzerland has issued a legal threat to a local newspaper that published a caricature of President Vladimir Putin with a red clown nose and rainbow stripes on his face, sources said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The embassy in its announcement over the weekend condemned the Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung daily for publishing the image in a July 9 article about the role of memes and digital messages in the context of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, according to the American daily Washington Post. <\/a><\/p>\n The article, titled “Between Superheroes and Villains: The Power of Memes in Ukraine’s War,” shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wearing a Captain America-style superhero costume, while Putin has a red clown nose and rainbow color in the face.<\/p>\n The Russian embassy said: “If we are going to talk about the clown, it would be more appropriate to consider Mr. Zelensky’s past as a comedian.”<\/p>\n “We believe that freedom of expression is not at all compatible with the freedom to spread insults and fake news,” according to the Swiss daily. swissinfo<\/a> which justified that Putin’s meme was previously published on the Twitter network.<\/p>\n As for the colored stripes on the face, the embassy said that Putin “is a person of Orthodox faith and defends the preservation of Christian values \u200b\u200bin Russian society (so he is not a fan of the LGBT community),” according to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n top channel
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