Indeed, when it comes to sexuality, Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky seems bored with all the familiar “perversions.” Recently, he has invented at least two new ones. In the official Russian media, new enemies pop up on a daily basis: Georgians, predatory foreign adoptive parents, punk performers, and even garden-variety LGBT activists are already old hat. The Russian government has been listening far too closely to the extreme right on sexual issues, when it should be applying such neanderthal logic to its own behavior: are satirists to be blamed when a country governs itself so provocatively? Nor is it easy to refrain from taking cheap shots when the Ministry of Culture issues press releases that look as though they were drafted by the Russia bureau of The Onion. It’s not easy keeping an open mind about what’s going on in Russia when government officials are so intent on keeping minds closed.
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