Moscow: Moving to the beat of 1990s pop hit American Boy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's stiff dance moves became an immediate viral hit on YouTube on Wednesday. Sporting a form-fitting silver jacket and open collar, Medvedev somewhat awkwardly wiggles his hips and kicks up his heels with other party guests in the half-minute clip posted late on Tuesday. The performance attracted mixed but plentiful reactions from Russians, with nearly 300 comments only hours after it was posted.
"It looks like Medvedev's swallowed a stick," one viewer commented. "You dance like my father!" twitter user Stacey Uliss wrote on Medvedev's page, to which the tech-savvy, 45-year-old president promptly posted a good-natured response. "Age-wise that seems to be the case," he tweeted, admitting the tune and his dance moves were dated. "We were partying at a meeting with (former) classmates a year ago. The dances/music are still those from the past." The Russian pop song that set him grooving topped charts in 1990 when its lyrics about escaping with a foreigner struck a chord amid the economic hardship and uncertainty accompanying the collapse of the Soviet Union. An avid Twitter user, Medvedev is seen as more liberal and Western-leaning than his mentor and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer who steered him into the country's top job in 2008. Kremlin spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said the video had probably been posted by a caterer at the party, saying it showed an unfortunate lack of respect for privacy.
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