A homophobic video urging Russians to re-elect President Vladimir Putin has gone viral less than a month before the country's election.
The video, which appeared on social media on Friday, tells voters that if Putin's rivals win they will take Russia into a "nightmare" future in which they are forced to co-habitate with gay men.
The video stars well-known screen actors but it was unclear who published it.
It has had more than three million views on the Facebook page of pro-Kremlin political analyst Alexander Kazakov.
In it, a middle-aged man dreams of a future without Putin, who is expected to win a fourth term in the March 18 vote.
In one of them, the character sees a gay man sitting in his kitchen filing his nails and eating a banana suggestively.
Homophobic attitudes are widespread in Russian society and no mainstream public figures have come out as gay. »