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Title: Russian newsreader fired after Obama middle finger insult
Source: The Telegraph - UK
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... bama-middle-finger-insult.html
Published: Nov 26, 2011
Author: Andrew Osborn
Post Date: 2011-11-26 12:27:01 by Hondo68
Keywords: raised middle finger, a synonym for, Barack Obama
Views: 119

A top Russian female newsreader who appeared to defiantly show US President Barack Obama her middle finger during a live newscast has been fired.

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
Tatyana Limanova, an award-winning senior newsreader at the channel, can be seen briskly reading out an item about APEC Photo: Youtube

Online footage of the incident involving news anchor Tatyana Limanova went viral in both Russia and the West causing REN TV, her employer, huge embarrassment.

To broadcast bosses' horror, Ms Limanova was caught mechanically raising her left arm and showing the camera her raised middle finger after referencing US President Barack Obama.

REN TV, a privately owned channel controlled by associates of Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, said on Thursday it had decided to take her off air calling her actions "unacceptable" and "unprofessional".

"On 14 November during the 'News 24' programme the presenter Limanova made an unacceptable gesture that was a synonym for an offensive expression," it said in a statement.

The channel, which is broadcast to 120 million people, claimed the gesture was intended for her colleagues in the studio rather than for President Obama.

"It had no subtext and was not linked with the news that Limanova was reading at that moment," it said.

Nonetheless, it said it had been left with no choice but to fire her.

"A decision has been taken that T Limanova cannot and will not continue to work on the REN TV channel as a presenter," it said.

Sources close to the channel had previously tried to defuse the row by claiming that the newsreader had believed she was off camera at the time and merely providing a voice-over for a report. She had raised her middle finger as a jokey retort to studio technicians who had been trying to put her off her stride, they said.


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