At a festival in Georgia, a musician "desecrated" the Russian flag

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Bastrykin ordered to initiate a criminal case and investigate the incident with the "desecration" of the Russian flag at a concert in Georgia.

Earlier, a corresponding video from the Tbilisi Open Air festival was distributed on social networks. Singer Erekle Getsadze threw the Russian tricolor on the stage, then put it in a bag and pretended to relieve himself on it. Some spectators began to applaud him.

The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed indignation about this.

"When God did not give a man brains, other organs have to work - in this case, the very one that, apparently, most often comes to hand," the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova commented on the incident.

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