{"id":9444,"date":"2013-08-20T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9444"},"modified":"2013-08-20T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T13:33:06","slug":"gays-try-to-claim-friendly-russian-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9444","title":{"rendered":"Gays try to claim friendly Russian kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9445\" alt=\"kissrussia\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Russian gold medalist from the Moscow World Athletics Championships on Tuesday said she was insulted by Anglo-Saxon media claims that she had kissed a fellow female athlete on the lips in defiance of Russia\u2019s new law against gay \u201cpropaganda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident highlighted certain Anglo-Saxon cultural attitudes. In Russia it is common for friends to kiss each other on the lips. In France even heterosexual male family members or friends may kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Ksenia Ryzhova and Yulia Gushchina, members of Russia\u2019s victorious 4&#215;400 women\u2019s relay team that provided one of the great moments of the championships, kissed each other on the podium after receiving their gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>Some activists saw the kiss as a brazen show of defiance in support of gays and lesbians and against President Vladimir Putin after the championships were shadowed throughout by controversy over the law.<\/p>\n<p>But Ryzhova on Tuesday insisted that she was married and made clear she was none too happy that people suspected that she and Gushchina might be more than just good friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday, I was telephoned 20 times by various publications and instead of congratulating me they decided to insult me with these questions,\u201d she fumed, quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMyself and Yulia are both married and we are not having any kind of relationship,\u201d she added, saying the two were very good friends after having trained together for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a storm of emotions (after winning). And if at that moment we touched lips&#8230; I don\u2019t know in whose fantasy this all gets thought up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis insults not just us but our trainers,\u201d she added. &#8211; France24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian gold medalist from the Moscow World Athletics Championships on Tuesday said she was insulted by Anglo-Saxon media claims that she had kissed a fellow female athlete on the lips in defiance of Russia\u2019s new law against gay \u201cpropaganda\u201d. The incident highlighted certain Anglo-Saxon cultural attitudes. In Russia it is common for friends to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gays try to claim friendly Russian kiss&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,123],"tags":[5330,5327,534,2828,5328,5329,66],"class_list":["post-9444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-anglo-saxon-cultural-attitudes","tag-cultural-differences","tag-france","tag-gays","tag-kissing","tag-moscow-world-athletics-championships","tag-russia"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/kissrussia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9447,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions\/9447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}