@prostitutkamila

I follow a few Russians around and have to occasionally jam a tweet through Google Translate to see what they're up to. This led to a Twitter exchange where I mentioned that @prostitutkamila is just a great sounding Twitter handle.

It seems like the State Department agree with me: Here's the minutes from a daily press briefing in March this year.

QUESTION: One of his followers appears to be someone with the name the – at least the Twitter handle Prostitutkamila. Do you have any – (laughter) – whose avitar is crossed legs. Do you have any – I mean, he is going back and forth with Prostitutkamila about this situation yesterday. Do you have any concerns or problems with that? Is that appropriate for – I mean, God knows who this person actually is, but --

MR. TONER: Right. Exactly, Matt. You well know, as I do, even though we’re not of the – this generation that uses Twitter – well, maybe you do, maybe you are, I don’t mean to age you – but that avitars come in all shapes and forms.

QUESTION: Well, I know, but, I mean, here he’s having a discussion saying that he was accosted by Cossacks at this event where these journalists – there were not just journalists there, there were men in military uniform, and I just – do you think that ambassadors should be routinely engaged in Twitter conversations with people who identify themselves as prostitutes?

MR. TONER: Again, he’s engaged with his followers. I’m not going to get – regulate or talk about from this podium who within his followers he should be talking to. Twitter – his tweets go out to a broad audience.

QUESTION: Did your concerns with – over his security and safety predate his Twitter activities yesterday?

MR. TONER: Yeah. I mean, I would say that. There’s been a number of incidents. I’m not going to go into them in detail but – because they do pertain to his security, but we’ve raised this.

QUESTION: Okay. And did you raise the concerns with the Russians before or after that exchange yesterday?

MR. TONER: Before. And we’re going to raise the latest concerns as well.

QUESTION: The latest concern being about his security, maybe --

MR. TONER: Well, and about --

QUESTION: My understanding was previous – the ones previous were about the anti-American incidents that --

MR. TONER: That’s right.

QUESTION: And then – but the new concern comes from the fact that he seems to be being followed around and --

MR. TONER: That’s my understanding, yes.

QUESTION: -- thinks that his phone and --

MR. TONER: Yes.

QUESTION: Have the Russians said anything in response to this latest --

MR. TONER: No. I don’t have any details about what their response has been.

QUESTION: Have they responded to the previous concerns about his being followed?

MR. TONER: Not that I’m aware.

QUESTION: New subject?

MR. TONER: Sure.

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