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A second woman campaigning to become an anti- Vladimir Putin MP has had sexually explicit pictures revealed by the pro-Kremlin media.

Maria Baronova, 32, was shown topless and kissing her 20 year old female campaign manager in hacked mobile pictures.

A known opposition activist, mother-of-one Ms Baronova wants to be an independent MP in parliamentary elections on 18 September.

She has not commented directly on the leak but said she “would like to discuss her breasts” after the campaign is over.

(Image: CEN)

(Image: CEN)

In April, prominent opposition activist Natalya Pelevine, 39, was caught in a sex sting after being filmed in bed with lover Mikhail Kasyanov , Putin’s former prime minister but now an implacable foe of the strongman.

The other woman in the latest racy pictures, Polina Nemirovskaya, claimed the images were from her hacked mobile.

“Something happened a month and a half ago, I had a lot of different messages to all my accounts, maybe it is due to this,” she said.

Ms Baronova is supported by Open Russia, a pro-democracy grouping led by Moscow’s former richest tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for a decade after opposing Putin.

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(Image: CEN)

She took out a loan of around £24,000 and gathered 15,000 signatures to enter the race in a Moscow constituency against United Russia, the pro-Putin grouping which currently controls parliament and is favourite to win the coming poll.

The pictures were leaked to a pro-Kremlin tabloid website.

In her social media, Ms Baronova has not hidden that she is a lesbian.

In one picture she covers her naked body with two sheets scrawled with the words: ‘Hello, my name is Masha Baronova. Ask me everything.’

The latest leak will be seen by opposition forces as evidence of a dirty tricks campaign aimed at discrediting opposition candidates.

(Image: CEN)

(Image: CEN)

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When playwright and political campaigner Ms Pelevine was hit by leaked footage of her in bed with the married Kasyanov in a love nest flat , she blamed a political campaign by the authorities to attack her and the opposition.

The film was shot by a hidden camera.

She left the USSR aged 12 for Britain - where she now has citizenship, but returned to Russia to play an active role in politics.

“The only reason that this film was made - the coming elections,” she said.

“ This is the reason for this horror.”