Dmitry Rogozin is a politician, Doctor of Philosophy, better known for his diplomatic activities and work in the Russian government. Since December last year, he has been the Deputy Prime Minister. Rogozin has his own page on the microblog Twitter, one of the messages in which received wide resonance in the press. It concerned the popular singer Madonna.
Rogozin’s entry widely discussed in Russia and abroad does not contain any names in his microblog, but practically no one doubts that she refers to the action of the American pop diva at one of the Moscow concerts. The 53-year-old Madonna makes a tour across three continents, and in Moscow her performance took place on August 7 at the Olimpiysky sports complex. During each of her shows, the singer makes a short speech on tolerance, telling that her troupe has people of different nationalities, religious denominations and sexual orientation. This time, Madonna added three sentences to her speech in support of members of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot arrested for hooliganism in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. She said that she was not going to express her disrespect for the church or government, but would pray for the freedom of courageous girls who had already paid for their deed in full. Then the singer performed a striptease traditional for Madonna’s concerts, exposing the inscription Pussy Riot on her back, put on a hat with slots (“balaclava”) - a constant attribute of all the actions of this female punk band - and sang the next song of the concert.
Dmitry Rogozin in his twitter'e and earlier left notes about the lawsuit against Pussy Riot that received in the country and beyond its borders a lot of resonance. He did not ignore this event, using unprintable epithets, however, hidden by self-censorship - a direct link to the message in the microblog is given below. Public figures quite often reward Madonna with similar epithets for traditional outrageous tricks - the last thing Elton John did was live on Australian television. However, the words of the current Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, albeit privately expressed, received a fairly wide resonance.
