This week: a round-up of Russian cultural news

A new line of Putin-inspired T-shirts has attracted crowds at Moscow’s GUM department store; the producers of a biopic about legendary Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov have won a top state prize; and software made by Russian software developer Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian-born Eugene Demchenko becomes the first bot to fool scientists into thinking it’s flesh and blood. A quick look at some of this week’s cultural news stories.

A new line of T-shirts with pictures of Putin drew crowds at Moscow’s GUM department store, with the collection’s production brand Anyavanya citing the success of the Russian team at Sochi and the reunification with Crimea as inspiration for the designs.

A bill has been drafted to deport foreigners who engage in prostitution, public drinking and driving without a licence.

The producers of a biopic about legendary 1970s Soviet hockey player Valery Kharlamov have won a state prize.

A number of Orthodox activists from the Siberian city of Novosibirsk have appealed to the city’s mayor to ban an upcoming concert by Marilyn Manson because of the singer’s promotion of unconventional sexual relations.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky has announced that Russia’s writers’ unions will soon be united under a single House of Russian Culture.

A programme created by Russian scientist Vladimir Veselov is the first bot to pass the Turing Test – which tests a machine’s ability to exhibit human behaviour.

And… a woman in Tatarstan has been arrested for making a pop video starring Adolf Hitler using last year’s music hit Oh God, What a Man by Russian pop singer Natalie as the soundtrack.