On Saturday, Russian state television showed the latest in a series of sensationalist exposés about the menace of homosexuality perverting the minds of European children

Special Correspondent, a show on the Rossiya 1 channel, broadcast a documentary that it said exposed how progressive sex education in Norway perverts the minds of otherwise healthy heterosexual children.

The show posits itself as a 60 Minutes-style investigative magazine program, but in reality usually consists of suggestive, antagonistic, or even entirely fake hit pieces on the Kremlin's supposed enemies — be they Pussy Riot, the Russian opposition, pro-European protesters in Ukraine, or LGBT people.

After the documentaries are shown, the program usually descends into a vituperative denunciation match between hardline lawmakers and other pro-Kremlin figures.