We're sorry, this article is unavailable at the moment. If you wish to read this article, kindly contact our Customer Service team at Thank you for your patience - we're bringing you a new and improved experience soon! Russian women furious at article calling them 'whores'. Thousands of Russian women have signed a petition demanding a popular tabloid retract an article that branded women who have relations with foreign football fans during the World Cup as "whores".
Moskovsky Komsomolets, one of Russia's biggest daily tabloids, published the article on Wednesday under the title, "The era of whores: Russian women at the World Cup are bringing shame on themselves and the country". By Friday afternoon more than 19, people had signed an online petition demanding the tabloid apologise and retract the article. A widely shared response to the article was published in the Russian edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. For Russian men, she wrote, "sex is a resource that treacherous women have seized and use to blackmail men.
Before the competition kicked off in Moscow on June 15, a female Communist Party lawmaker urged women not to have sex with foreign fans. Russia was sealed off from much of the world during the Soviet era and remains a deeply conservative society to this day.
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