The Guardian
November 22 2011
A stadium full of pumped up, macho Russian martial art fans had just watched the Russian fighter, Fedor Emelianenko, knock the daylights out of the American challenger, Jeff Monson. As the American was taken off the blood-splattered ring with a broken leg, Russia's former President and current Prime Minister climbed up onto the ring at Moscow's Olympic Stadium and launched into a congratulatory speech for Emelianenko, calling him a "real Russian knight". The crowd had other ideas.
The crowd began to boo and jeer the Prime Minister of Russia, who pressed on with his speech but it was what happened next that surprised many. Within roughly thirty seconds since the beginning of the booing, the crowd began to chant 'Putin out'. Though it is believed to have started off as a jeer by one of the members of the crowd, the chant was quickly picked up by almost everybody in the stadium. Facing such anger from the crowd, Putin was immediately whisked away from the stadium by agents of the Federal Security Service.