Staunton, September 12 – “Komsomolskaya Pravda” a week ago celebrated the fact that “Rome is filled with portraits of Vladimir Putin” (kp.ru/daily/26129/3021439/), but it didn’t point out that these pictures were being displayed not by mainstream Italians but by members of extremist, neo-fascist groups, just as is the case in other European countries. In a commentary posted on Slon.ru yesterday, Sergey Sumlenny points out that the signs the Moscow newspaper had shown were being carried by members of the Italian National Front to express their solidarity with Putin on his “struggle with homosexual propaganda” (slon.ru/world/evropeyskie_krayne_pravye_s_putinym_v_serdtse-989843.xhtml). The pictures of Putin in...