Newsreader who ‘buried Putin’ is Internet star

[Playinghardball]

A newsreader who slipped up and said bloggers were debating whether Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should be buried has become an Internet sensation and received thousands of grateful posts in Russia.

Maria Bukhtuyeva, a newsreader from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, made the mistake when wanting to say presidential hopeful Mikhail Prokhorov had proposed holding a referendum on whether Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin should be removed from a Red Square Mausoleum and buried.

“Shall we bury Vladimir Putin?” Bukhtuyeva of Krasnoyarsk’s TVK television channel inquired instead last week. “This topic is now being actively discussed on the Internet.”

The Russian blogoshere exploded with delight, with thousands of commentators sending her virtual flowers and leaving numerous posts on the young woman’s page on the social site VKontakte, a Russian version of Facebook.

More:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/31/newsreader-who-buried-putin-is-internet-star/

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1. Been seeing a lot of Putin bashing lately here. Must have to do

with those darned UN Security Counsel rules, and Russia's unwillingness to go along with another "humanitarian" war in the Middle East. Drat, just when we were on a roll.

[msongs]

2. putin bashing? OP is merely a recital of an event that occured. hardly "bashing", a much overused

word on DU

[DisgustipatedinCA]

3. There's a lot of Putin to bash. He is an extra-judicial killer, you know.

That doesn't excuse any atrocities my own leaders commit, but fuck Vladimir Putin for murdering journalists, among other crimes.

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4. Never much liked Vlad, myself, just remarking on the spike in these stories of late.