On Saturday morning, a number of British newspapers—including Daily Mail and Mirror—broke the story to the West that some hours earlier glued millions of Russians to their television sets.
Mikhail Kasyanov, the former Minister of Finance and Prime Minister under Vladimir Putin, is a chairman of the opposition party, PARNAS (Party of People’s Freedom)—created long ago with the late Boris Nemtsov.
Mr. Kasyanov was caught in a scandal that will inevitably ruin not only his political aspirations, but also his family life.
Clips of a secretly taped 40-minute video were shown on the Kremlin-loyal NTV channel Kasyanov’s Day, in hopes of delivering another devastating blow to Mr. Putin’s rivals in the upcoming elections for the State Parliament Duma.
From: Former Russian Prime Minister Caught Having Sex With Opposition Leader | Observer
Interesting stuff. What’s even more interesting, after watching the footage, is that the voice narrating the video is computer generated. Perhaps that says something about the Russian political system but I’m not exactly sure what.Report
This has setup written all over it.
But she’s pretty hot.Report
I’m not so sure it was a setup but instead think that someone discovered their secret love shack/sugar shack and bugged it.Report
The title is not quite right, correct? Kasyanov is the former PM, and was caught with a woman not his wife – but that woman isn’t the opposition leader, Kasyanov is, himself, the opposition leader. So he was not really ‘caught having sex with the opposition leader.’
Unless Putin told Kasyanov to go f— himself, and Kasyanov did so, which is entirely plausible.Report
Kolohe is right about the headline. Bad error on the part of the Observer.
Which I would be willing to forgive, if it hadn’t brought up images of Hilary and Ted that will likely have to bleach my eyeballs to mentally un-see.Report
I will bet money that porn producers, who are probably left-leaning on the whole, kind of wish that McCain/Palin had won.Report
There certainly seemed to be no shortage of Palin inspired porn movies.Report
Kolohe is right about the headline. Bad error on the part of the Observer.
Error or “error”?Report
Which is to say, by way of admission, that the only reason I clicked thru to the bitter end was because of the lurid headline. Which clearly wasn’t true.
And then I heard a computer generated narrator telling me things I’d rather not know….Report
. . . in hopes of delivering another devastating blow to Mr. Putin’s rivals . . .
Indeed.Report