The WWE's Lana praised her native Russia's President Vladimir Putin as "the most powerful president in the world" during her introduction of Alexander Rusev Monday on WWE Raw.
She also called fugitive Edward Snowden a "patriot," prompting audible ire from the audience:
LANA: I am proud to be Russian. And I'm proud to come from a country who has the most dominant and powerful president in the world, Vladimir Putin. He makes fools out of every one of you. You are merely pawns in his game of global dominance. And he welcomes with open arms the patriot Edward Snowden. America, your secrets are safe. But no man in WWE is safe from the Bulgarian brute who now resides in mother Russia, Rusev!