Naked protester' Liana Klevtsova challenges Siberia's fur farms in explicit video

WARNING: EXPLICIT AND GRAPHIC IMAGES

Irkutsk student and model Liana Klevtsova, 20, has made a name for herself with her 'Naked Truth' protests about rising prices and in support of truckers objecting to a new tax. Now in her most powerful stunt, she aims her fury at fur farmers and hunters in Siberia, which for centuries has been the centre of this trade in Russia, and worldwide.

Her video, posted on the web, mixes footage of 'cruel' killing of animals on fur farms with shots of her naked in the snow and locked in a cage, images she uses to demand an end to these 'death camps'. 

She does not speak a word on the 18+ film running for 2 minutes 36 seconds which includes graphic scenes, but explains her motives on her social media site.

'We decided to talk about really important thing, something that concerns all humanity,' said the engineering student. This is something that has nothing to do with the economy, politics, or the complexity of relationships between people. This time we want to talk about: what makes us human, about the soul and can we really say with confidence that we have it?

'Against the background of technological progress, the development of space, creation of the Large Hadron Collider, exploitation of nuclear energy, some of our actions are comparable to the level of the Stone Age. We live side by side with our brothers and, for unknown reasons, have set ourselves above them... I'm talking about the world of animals.

'At a time when are created the advanced synthetic materials, which can protect our body not only from the extremes of temperature but also from the space radiation, we are back in the prehistoric past, killing those who live next to us, for the sake of our whim. If our ancestors really needed it because it was the issue of survival, why we are doing this now?'

Admitting that administration of her unnamed university is 'crazy' over her nude protests, she said that 'mass killing of animals' to make products carrying 'status' or 'following fashion trends' was wrong.

And she faces threats of acid being poured over her to ruin her looks, according to a report in Irkutsk.

'For some reason I am reminded the situation with concentration camps during the Second World War, when human hair was used to stuff pillows and mattresses, and human skin was used to make wallets, especially valuable with tattoos.

'All mankind remembers this as a terrible page of history, but no one thinks that all this is happening today. Yet such a death camps are still working only to satisfy the whim of humans.

'It never comes to my mind that when people go out in the coat of fur, with a suitcase made of crocodile and in shoes of ramp skin, or upholster car seats in natural leather, it is caused by some kind of necessity. Let us recognise that we are one big family, our home is planet Earth, and that each of us has a soul.' 

An emotive poster shows the number of animals needed to make one coat. This can be up to 25 foxes, 50-60 ferrets, 25-30 raccoons and only 1 human. 'To save the maximum number of souls, the choice is obvious,' she said. 

As for Liana, she loves wearing fur - but only artificial - and her city has average winter temperatures of minus 18C (0F), and a record low of minus 49.7C (minus  57.5 F).