Striptease contest sparks fury in Russia as nightclub revellers face jail and make grovelling apology for taking clothes off to win an iPhone

A striptease contest that saw contestants take their clothes off for the chance to win an iPhone has sparked fury in Russia, with authorities forcing revellers to make a grovelling apology and threatening them with jail. 

Organisers asked two men and two women to go to the front of the club, understood to be in a bunker in the south-eastern Astrakhan region, and begin taking their clothes off. 

Video footage from the night showed three of them them nervously getting naked, while a 22-year-old woman was happy to strip off for the chance to win the Apple product. 

After Russian authorities arrested the four on stage, as well as several others who helped put the event together, and threatened them with 15 days of jail time, the woman was forced to make a an abject apology.

She said: 'I am insanely remorseful for what I did. My actions were immoral and nor normal at all. I am deeply ashamed that I did it. 

While lurid striptease shows are common in Putin's Russia , this contest was seen as breaking the bounds of decency

Video footage from the night showed three of them them nervously getting naked, while a 22-year-old woman was happy to strip off for the chance to win the Apple product

The organisers and the contestants were all arrested by Russian authorities 

The unnamed woman said in her grovelling apology: 'I am insanely remorseful for what I did. My actions were immoral and nor normal at all. I am deeply ashamed that I did it'

'What I experienced today, these emotions, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I sincerely apologise to everyone. I apologise to my family, and to my home city.'

Vladimir Putin's governor in Astrakhan region Igor Babushkin expressed outrage at the stunt, while police raided the club.

While lurid striptease shows are common in Putin's Russia, this contest was seen as breaking the bounds of decency.

'What happened in the Bunker night club is a disgrace for all of us,' stormed the dictator-loyal governor.

'At a time when thousands of our fellow countrymen, not caring for their lives, defend the Motherland in the [war]…some inhuman people, who have lost all shame and conscience, staged an immoral performance that humiliates human dignity.'

The contestants were stripping for the chance to win an iPhone

The governor of the region accused them of selling themselves out for 'an American phone'

He raged in his online post: 'Do they even know what a BUNKER is?'

'Do they realise what is happening in real BUNKERS now, there on the front lines?

'They sold themselves out for an American phone, which the advertising industry and media made a symbol of success and prosperity for an entire generation.'

He questioned whether any nudity should be allowed in Russia during the war started by Putin.

'I am sure that the public has the right to know by name all those who organised this brutality, who took part in it, flaunting their shame, who applauded and rejoiced at this outrage.'