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Russian anchor off air for finger gesture in Obama story
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November 25, 2011, Friday
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A famous Russian TV anchor has been taken off the air for making an obscene gesture after mentioning US President Barack Obama in a live newscast, the channel said yesterday.
Tatiana Limanova, an award-winning journalist and host of a news show on the REN-TV private channel, waved her middle finger when presenting a story about the APEC summit in the United States, a moment after mentioning Obama.
The video went viral on the internet, with many viewers speculating the gesture had been meant to insult the US president, who met his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit.
"The gesture was addressed to the members of the editing crew, there was no implication of any kind and it had no reference to the information delivered by Tatiana Limanova," a spokesman for the TV station told Interfax.
Limanova thought she was reading the news offscreen by the time she raised a finger, the spokesman said. There were no details on how Limanova's duties would change after the incident.
Relations between Russia and the United States have been strained recently over US plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Europe.
REN-TV is broadcast across Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is owned by tycoon Yuri Kovalchuk, believed to be close to Russia's paramount leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Tatiana Limanova, an award-winning journalist and host of a news show on the REN-TV private channel, waved her middle finger when presenting a story about the APEC summit in the United States, a moment after mentioning Obama.
The video went viral on the internet, with many viewers speculating the gesture had been meant to insult the US president, who met his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the summit.
"The gesture was addressed to the members of the editing crew, there was no implication of any kind and it had no reference to the information delivered by Tatiana Limanova," a spokesman for the TV station told Interfax.
Limanova thought she was reading the news offscreen by the time she raised a finger, the spokesman said. There were no details on how Limanova's duties would change after the incident.
Relations between Russia and the United States have been strained recently over US plans to deploy a missile defense shield in Europe.
REN-TV is broadcast across Russia and the former Soviet Union. It is owned by tycoon Yuri Kovalchuk, believed to be close to Russia's paramount leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
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