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Topping a long list of films or TV shows Mr Milonov feels should be outlawed is fantasy series Game of Thrones, based on George RR Martin's 'Song of Ice and Fire' books.

He has appealed to the country's Culture Ministry to devise a system to brand any film or TV show containing what he judges to be heretical Western values as "harmful".

Vitaly Milonov, of President Vladimir Putin's conservative United Russia party, has declared himself a guardian of traditional Russian values.

Every one in 10 characters is a sexual deviant

Commenting on the HBO-produced smash hit, which attracts millions of viewers around the world, Mr Milonov said: "Every one in 10 characters is a sexual deviant.

"It is precisely through these kinds of works and their popularisation in our conscious that a new understanding is being laid down that certain things and phenomena are normal."

Mr Milonov, who is a member of the St Petersburg regional assembly, has previously attracted controversy.

Last year he claimed gay competitors at the Sochi Winter Olympics, hosted by Russia, could be subject to arrest under the country's laws.

And the right-wing politician sparked outrage after commenting on Apple CEO Tim Cook's homosexuality, saying: "What could he bring us? The Ebola virus, AIDS, gonorrhea?

"They all have unseemly ties over there."