“Some fans of group sex say that it’s better than one-on-one because, as with any collective work, you can skive off,” he said.

The comment came after the Russian leader had spoken about an orgy that was staged in Moscow’s state biology museum in 2008 which involved Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, one of three feminist activists of the Pussy Riot group who were jailed for two years for hooliganism last month after a politically charged trial…

“They performed group sex in a public place,” said the president. “It was, as they say, their affair; people have the right to do what they like as long as it doesn’t break the law, but [doing it] in public, then the authorities should have paid attention to that.”