Russia’s Zabaykalsky Krai regional governor was seen nonchalantly shoving his finger up his nose, digs around a bit and pulls out a booger.
It happened as Aleksandr Osipov was surveying a rural area ravaged by forest fires along with other local officials.
Osipov proceeds to casually wipe his snot on the jacket of his forestry chief, Elena Shalyapina, who is holding a clipboard while briefing the others.
After the video surfaced last week on Russian social media, Osipov denied he picked his nose, explaining he was merely removing a bug from his schnoz.
Shalyapina has no idea she’s just been turned into a soiled Kleenex tissue by her own boss.
He added that he didn’t want Shalyapina to be ‘disturbed’ by all the press surrounding the incident.
