Russian Obama ice cream ad stirs anger

  posted by admin 31 October 2011

A Russian advertising agency has used an image resembling U.S. President Barack Obama to promote a new vanilla and chocolate ice cream, drawing the ire of human rights groups who said the ad was vulgar. The poster features a computer generated caricature of a broadly smiling figure resembling Obama standing in front of the U.S. Congress with the ice cream in the foreground. The strapline reads: Its on everyones lips the Dark is in the White We wanted to make the print amusing and cheerful, just as joyful and pleasant as the process of eating an ice cream, Yevgeny Primachenko, deputy creative director of Voskhod advertisement agency, told Reuters by phone from Yekaterinburg. Reuters