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Russia's largest selling newspaper has accused Manchester of being a city of "fat people" and "debauchery" with gay-friendly attitudes that Moscow should avoid.

A disturbing homophobic diatribe by Komsomolskaya Pravda columnist Alisa Titko claimed Manchester was an example of a city that Moscow, due to host next year's FIFA World Cup Final, should not emulate.

"It is true that there are many fat people in Manchester," she told her readers.

"Local young women don't mind when fat hangs down from their stomach and body - and does not fit into their jeans.

"Whatever, when they go to a nightclub they put on tight fit leggings and mini-dresses."

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She claimed Manchester showed why people were wrong to call for Moscow to be "more tolerant to couples with non-traditional sexual orientation".

"In Manchester there is a whole part of the city for gay people. Nobody told me about it, I have found it myself when I was walking around the town.

"There is even a plate there saying 'Gay Village'.

"It is the most popular place for such couples, there are cafés and clubs there with small rainbow flags.

"Of course, a young man with a girl can also go into the gay club but they should know that if somebody approaches them, it maybe not just for a chat but for something more deep.

"Of course, it is hardly possible that men turn gay because girls are too fat and non-sexual. But it can influence it too."

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"In the evenings gays and lesbians are having fun not only inside but also outside and they do not hide their feelings.

"In one café, there was a wedding of two rather big girls," she wrote.

"One of them was wearing a bridal veil, the second had a black tie on.

"Their mothers and friends were sitting at the table with them.

"At the next table we saw a man in a skin mask who was sticking his tongue out of it when he wanted to lick the ear of his partner....

"We see explicit posters on the walls, for example the one of kissing Batman and Superman."

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She claimed gay people openly holding hands and kissing was "disgusting".

"It is such a pleasure that there are no such gay streets in Moscow," she said.

Her jaundiced view is a striking example of intolerance to homosexuals in Russia and comes amid reports that gay men in Chechnya were rounded up into 'concentration camps' where they were were beaten and tortured, with some killed.

Relatives were also urged to carry out 'honour killings' on their homosexual family members because of shame.

Titko told her readers bizarrely that "the fact that there are more and more people with non-traditional sexual orientation in Russia" was because "their mothers did not beat them enough when they were kids. It is a measure of their immorality."

She demanded: "Let's remain Russian. Let's start normal families. Let's give birth in legal marriages. And don't lets mix love and debauchery".