Russian officials are considering prosecution* against Lady Gaga and Madonna after discovering they entered the country with incorrect paperwork.

    The office of Russia’s prosecutor general has issued a statement confirming that neither singer obtained an appropriate visa prior to performing there last year. Madonna, who played in August 2012, and Gaga, who appeared in December, traveled under cultural-exchange visas. These documents “do not grant their bearers the right to engage in any commercial activity,” authorities said.

    According to the Russian legal information agency, prosecutors are now considering asking Russia’s foreign ministry or federal migration service to press charges.

    Gaga and Madonna’s mistakes weren’t just discovered by accident. Prosecutors launched their investigation only after being contacted by one of the singers’ most outspoken enemies.

    The man in question was Vitaly Milonov, who serves in St. Petersburg’s municipal legislature and authored St. Petersburg’s law banning gay “propaganda*” — a model for recent legislation passed by the Duma. After Gaga and Madonna spoke in support of LGBT issues at their 2012 concerts, Milonov tried to pursue them in court for “promoting lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among minors.” Those claims were unsuccessful.

    (SD-Agencies)