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- A news ticker was hacked in Siberia to insult Vladimir Putin, reports said.
- Putin is a "thief', said the hijacked news ticker in Siberian oil town Surgut.
- It came after the value of the ruble plunged against the dollar.
A news ticker in a Siberian oil town was rewired to display insults branding Russia's President Vladimir Putin a "thief" after the value of the ruble plunged to its lowest point since the early weeks of the Ukraine war.
"Putin is a dickhead and a thief. 100 rubles to the dollar – you've lost your fucking mind," read the news ticker in Surgut, an oil town in Siberia, reported Max Seddon, the Financial Times' Moscow bureau chief.