Obama Fingered on Russian Television - Updated

(Moscow, Russia) Award-winning newsreader Tatyana Limanova on the privately held REN TV channel has created a stir by editorializing about President Obama during a news segment.

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In the footage, Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about how Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Asia Pacific Cooperation organisation.

She is then heard to say that the post "has (previously) been held by Barack Obama" before mechanically and unambiguously raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger in an offensive gesture that is sometimes known as "flipping the bird."

Efforts to explain away the gesture have been futile.

Tip: Charley Nestor

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[Update 11/24/11]
Ms. Limanova has been fired.