Under pressure from the lawmakers, the Investigative Committee announced on November 2 that it was opening a criminal probe on suspicion of 'violent sexual assault on a minor under the age of 14.' 'It was absolutely noncommercial.'īut one video in the Real Talk series – in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 ask questions of a male homosexual - caught the attention of a group of socially conservative Russian State Duma deputies. 'It was a purely social project,' a source involved with the project told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity out of fear of harassment or persecution. For instance, the elderly, the disabled, people with eating disorders, or homosexuals.
MOSCOW - It seemed like a good idea at the time: create a series of YouTube videos in which children sit down to talk to people who are often marginalized by society.
