Obscene tweet posted on Medvedev's Twitter account

An obscene re-tweet was posted briefly on Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's official Twitter account, the Kremlin said, blaming the incident on 'interference' by a technical employee.

The post was quickly deleted from the account Wednesday, but not before screen shots of it were captured by internet users and circulated widely through Russian social networks and media websites.

'A rude re-tweet of a post appeared on Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter account last night,' the Kremlin said in a statement, under ... BNN