A student who walked naked down the freezing streets of Russia in protest over the cost of living under Vladimir Putin has become an internet sensation.
Liana Klevtsova took off all, but a pair of red stilettos as she posed outside filling up her car at a petrol station, in front a bank and riding a bus in her home city.
Pictures of the 19-year-old, naked during the bitter Siberian winter for the campaign against Putin's financial policies, have gone viral.
In the pictures, the aspiring catwalk model is pictured outside a branch of Sberbank holding a passport and papers with the caption 'I've paid off my mortgage'.
In another still, she is photographed fully naked filling up her large off-road car next to a man who is semi-clothed, filling up his smaller car.
Liana appeared in three adverts protesting spiralling fuel costs, against high mortgage rates and extortionate travel expenses on public transport in the country
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The blonde beauty and catwalk model, who once on the front cover of Vogue magazine, was fully fronting the Golaya Pravda (Naked Truth) campaign.
She stated to the Siberian Times: "We wanted to send this positive message to people that nothing can bring us down, and the contrast of winter and naked body, we had to show it.
"People are not ready to fight to lower fuel prices. It's easier for them to buy a smaller car."
The average monthly wage in Putin's Russia is just 25,000 roubles - £300.
The protest group is upset about annual mortgage rates in the country, which have risen to up to 18 per cent, and rising petrol prices, which currently exceed 40 roubles (35p) per litre.
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