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A Russian ice cream maker has been accused of promoting homosexuality after using a rainbow on its packaging. The head of Russia's official Union of Women said the image amounted to "propaganda" for gay and lesbian relations in a video conference with President Vladimir Putin.

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They include the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, which is to be enshrined in the Russian Constitution following a recent public vote that also paves the way for Vladimir Putin to seek two more terms of office. In a later interview, Ms Lakhova said: " I don't like the rainbow, just as I don't like the swastika.

In response to Ms Lakhova, President Putin said: "If there are reasons to believe that this is propaganda for values that are not traditional to us, then… it must be managed by society, but not aggressively. He added that he had no objections to homosexuality, only to its "propaganda".

At the same meeting, President Putin criticised the US embassy in Moscow for displaying the rainbow flag recentlysaying that the symbol said "something about those who work there". Homophobia is rife in Russia and, after the flag was displayed, conservative activists placed a similar one on the pavement outside the US embassy for passers-by to wipe their feet on.

The authorities in Russia have been accused of tolerating anti-gay abuse, and there have been allegations of particularly cruel purges in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya. The ice-cream maker embroiled in the row said the vladimir putin i am gay remix on its packaging had nothing to do with LGBT rights.

Ms Lakhova's claims that ice cream is being used to promote homosexuality has caused an uproar on Russian media. The popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets sarcastically suggested that the rainbow must now be banned from appearing after it rains in Russia, and that the Defence Ministry may be drafted in to fight any rogue rainbows.

A popular Twitter user jokingly demanded that light dispersion be banned in Russia because "it puts homosexual innuendo into normal sunlight". Journalist Andrei Loshak took a much more serious view of the situation, accusing Putin of trying to use homophobia "as an effective populist tool".

Reporting by Vitaly Shevchenko. Next story: Croatian women show the middle finger to abortion remarks.

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