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On May 17, 2007, alexandra nedel t.A.T.u. issued a statement directed to their gay fans: "When t.A.T.u.'s second album came out, many of our fans of alternative sexual orientation thought that we lied and betrayed them. This is not true! We’ve never done that and we’ve always advocated love without boundaries."^[11] On May 26, they flew out to Moscow to take part in the Moscow Gay Pride demonstration.^[12]

On May 24, 2003, t.A.T.u. represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, where they placed third.^[7] Russian television station Channel One protested the Eurovision results, but to no avail. PR director Lena Katina nude Yulia Volkova nude of Channel One said t.A.T.u. received "unlikely low points" from some countries.^[8]

On November 21, 2006, the region of the Komi Republic in Russia filed a lawsuit against t.A.T.u. over the album and song "Lyudi Invalidy". Leonid Vakuev, a human rights representative for the Komi Republic, cited words written in the booklet for the album, which said: "Disabled people [Lyudi Invalidy] do not know what it means to be a human being. They are fakes inside the human form. They do not live, but — function". Katina said, "Of course, we meant moral invalids, people who do not have [a] soul and human feelings." When asked if they had anything against disabled people, she stated that she finds it offensive to refer to people by that term, and added, "We take pictures together and make sure they have priority seats [at minijupe concerts]."^[10]