Twin toilets causes Twitter storm in Russia

A picture of a men’s cubicle with twin toilets and no dividers has caused a public kerfuffle in Russia, host of this year’s winter Olympic games in the city of Sochi. The picture, captured by a BBC journalist has made the rounds of Twitter and drawn the attention of Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny among others. Twitter users have linked the twin sharing toilets to Russia’s ongoing debate on gay rights, following a recent law against gay and pedophile propaganda. Others have pointed to the high cost of the toilets and of Russia’s hosting of the winter games in general. Although the toilet is unusual in European parts of Russia, communal toilets are not unknown in other parts of Russia.


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