A glitzy Moscow night club sparked controversy on Tuesday by advertising a dance night called “Putin Party”, with a flyer praising the strongman prime minister as an “object of desire.”
The Rai, or Heaven, nightclub in central Moscow advertised the event on a banner across the central Novy Arbat street, reading “Putin Party” with the slogan “I want a prime minister”.
The authorities said they could pull the plug on the event, however.
Photo: AFP 照片：法新社
Putin’s press secretary said Tuesday he would consult lawyers over whether the club broke a law that says using a person’s name or image requires the person’s consent.
“We will consult lawyers and decide what to do,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told the RIA Novosti news agency.
A flyer for the party on the club’s website is a mock ballot paper to choose “an object of desire.” Putin’s name is decorated with a lipstick kiss.
Photo: Reuters 照片：路透
The club’s art director, Artyom Shatrov, told AFP the event would go ahead despite Peskov’s comment.
“Nobody told us to cancel it. The Kremlin did not contact us. There wasn’t any point in canceling it,” he said.
The party’s theme was chosen by a poll of female clubbers, who were asked to vote for the most attractive man from a list including footballer David Beckham and actor Bruce Willis, Shatrov said.
The highlight of the party will be a DJ presenting a remix of a classic Fats Domino song, “Blueberry Hill,” that Putin performed at a recent star-studded charity gala in Saint Petersburg, he said.
“It’s some kind of a joke. It’s not anything political.”
Putin flexed his toned muscles in a topless photoshoot and has been celebrated as a sex symbol in song and with an erotic calendar.
Girl group Poyushiye Vmeste, or Singing Together, sang in a popular hit from 2002 that: “I want a man like Putin, full of strength/ I want a man like Putin, who doesn’t drink.”
Last year, female students at Moscow State University posed in lacy lingerie for a calendar to celebrate Putin’s birthday, called “Vladimir Vladimirovich, We love you. Happy Birthday Mr. Putin.”
Putin later praised the calendar as “beautiful” in an interview with British GQ magazine.
(AFP)
浮華的莫斯科夜總會，週二因宣傳「普廷派對」夜店舞會的廣告，文宣內容讚美強人總理是被「渴望的對象」，引發爭議。
位於莫斯科中部的「雷」或「天堂」夜總會，在整條新阿爾巴街上設置寫有「普廷派對」連同一句「我要一位總理」口號的布條。
政府當局說他們仍然可以制止這項活動。
普廷的新聞秘書週二說，他將諮詢律師瞭解這夜店是否因為未經他人允許擅自使用他人名字或肖像而犯法。
普廷發言人德米崔‧培斯科夫告訴俄羅斯新聞社說，「我們將諮詢律師並決定該怎麼做。」
這間夜店網站上的一個傳單，模擬選票樣式，選擇「一個渴望的對象」。普廷的名字上有一個口紅唇印。
這間夜總會的藝術總監阿爾焦姆‧夏特洛夫告訴法新社說，不管培斯科夫的意見，活動會如期舉行。
他說，「沒有人叫我們取消活動。克林姆林宮並未與我們聯絡。沒有任何理由取消這個活動。」
夏特洛夫說，這個派對的主題是由一個女性夜店族的意見調查選出的，在調查中，這些夜店族從一列名單中選出她們心目中最具吸引力的男人，這名單包含足球員大衛‧貝克漢與演員布魯斯‧威利。
他說，這個派對的重頭戲將是一位音樂節目主持人播放費茲‧多明諾經典歌曲「藍莓山丘」的混音版，這也是普廷在最近的一個於聖彼得堡舉辦的巨星雲集慈善盛會所獻唱的歌。
他說，「這是某種程度的笑話。這完全非關政治。」
普廷在鏡頭前半身裸露，展現他漂亮的肌肉，他也在一首歌曲內與一幅情色月曆中，被讚美為性感的象徵。
女子團體Poyushiye Vmeste或「一起唱歌」（暫譯）重唱二零零二年的流行歌曲，歌詞為「我要一位像普廷充滿力量的男人／我要一位像普廷一樣不喝酒的男人。」
去年，莫斯科國立大學女學生們身著蕾絲女性內衣拍照製成月曆，慶祝普廷的生日，並對普廷說，「弗拉吉米爾‧弗拉吉米爾洛維契，我們愛你。普廷先生，生日快樂。」
普廷之後在接受英國版《GQ》雜誌時誇讚這本照片月曆是「美麗的」。
（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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