Female influencers who posted ‘lesbian’ kiss online are hunted down by Russian police and forced to make grovelling apology under Putin’s extreme anti-gay laws

Two Russian influencers were forced to make a public apology over a lesbian kiss posted online.

Vlada Alchaeva, 24, and her friend Vika, 19, were hunted by police and will also face heavy fines for flouting laws banning LGBT propaganda.

The pair were told by police that they could ‘damage the psyche’ of minors who viewed their video under draconian new laws.

The Putin regime’s new laws come despite the scandalous ‘lesbian’ band tATu that flourished in the dictator’s first years in power.

Singers Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina were even invited by Putin to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Vlada Alchaeva, 24, and her girlfriend Vika, 19, in a kiss posted online. They were hunted by police and also risk hefty fines for flouting laws banning LGBT propaganda

Vlada and Vika filmed their video on social media in a pizzeria in Krasnodar, a region close to the war zone where Putin has an official residence and a private palace

Vlada and Vika are taken away by the police. The pair were told by police they could ‘damage the psyche’ of minors who viewed their video under draconian new laws

Vlada and Vika filmed their social media video at a pizzeria in Krasnodar, a region close to the war zone where Putin has an official residence and a private palace.

“It was all in jest, just for laughs,” said Vlada, who posted the kiss on Instagram, banned in Russia, where she has 165,000 followers, along with 440,000 on TikTok.

During a police interrogation, an officer asked: “Did you understand that your video could be viewed by minors and that the French kiss you performed could have damaged their psyche?”

Vika replied: “I didn’t think it could have affected anyone.

‘I haven’t thought about it. I did not know that.’

She was asked: “So you often kiss women in real life?”

She replied, ‘No, no, no! It was just a joke. I regret it very much, I am very sorry.

‘I’m only now beginning to realize what we’ve done. And I understand that we shouldn’t have done that.’

Vlada Alchaev (left) and Vika (right). During a police interrogation, an officer asked: “Did you understand that your video could be viewed by minors and that the French kiss you performed could have damaged their psyche?” Vika replied: ‘I didn’t think it could have affected anyone’

Lena Katina (left) and Yulia Volkova in the band tATu The scandalous band flourished in Putin’s first years in power

Vlada also issued a humble apology for violating the new norms in Russia.

‘We started filming when we were kissing and I propose to her, which we really regret and won’t do again.’

In the video, Vlada proposes and then they kiss passionately.

She later told a journalist: ‘I would never trade (male genitals) for (female genitals), I love men.

‘I don’t support banned movements.

“For some reason people thought (the proposal in the video) was real.

She (Vika) and I are friends.

‘But I’ve always had relationships with men. The goal was to attract attention.’

Vlada faces a fine of up to £1,750 and Vika a maximum of £875.