One of Vladimir Putin's most prominent rivals has been filmed in a s3x sting with a British woman who is also a leading opposition campaigner.
Grainy bedroom footage purports to show former Kremlin prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, 58, with playwright and activist Natalya Pelevine, 39, in a Moscow apartment.
The release by Kremlin-friendly television channel NTV is apparently aimed at destroying one of the few opposition leaders seen as remotely capable of being an alternative president to Putin.
But it also attacks and humiliates UK citizen Pelevine, who has been a constant critic of the Russian leadership, especially over its actions in Chechnya and lack of democracy.
The pair were filmed naked or scantily clad, their faces fully visible.
Married Kasyanov was shown with his secret lover - an activist in his RPR Parnas party who also had a role as his aide - with partially-pixelated scenes of nudity and intimacy.
The black and while footage did not show explicit s3x acts.
It appeared to have been filmed by a hidden camera in a dressing table in the bedroom of a Moscow flat apparently used for covert liaisons between the couple.
Who was behind the filming is unclear, but the purpose was evidently to embarrass the opposition figures who are also heard savaging other so-called allies in an anti-Putin front ahead of upcoming elections.
Pelevine has been active in the Russian opposition for around a decade. Soviet-born, her parents emigrated to Britain before the collapse of the USSR when she was a child.
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