When Georgia made a thinly-veiled anti-Putin disco act its official Eurovision candidate last month, we knew there was a cat fight coming. We weren't disappointed. Celebrities and ordinary Russians alike are expressing their outrage over the song "We Don't Wanna Put In," and there's surely more scratching to come.

First, there were the public demonstrations in Moscow. Members of pro-Kremlin youth group Young Russia rallied near the Georgian Embassy, which is actually closed (you know, because there was that war). Using a live turkey to represent Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, they chanted “Misha, stop sniffing cocaine/Better to use your brain.” Among the concerns allegedly raised by the young protesters? That the song was funded by American dollars, and that it’s part of a U.S. plot against Russia. Proving once again that Kremlin youth groups can use any scenario as a template for their favorite mad libs.

Maybe Young Russia felt emboldened after Diana Gurtskaya, a Moscow-based Georgian pop singer who is also blind, went public with her outrage. Gurtskaya, who represented Georgia at Eurovision 2008, held a press conference Friday to announce that “Eurovision is not a political contest.” She will therefore withhold from participating in this year’s pre-selection procedures, and will not pass the baton to Stephane & 3G, the Georgian group behind "Put In." In closing, the Georgian singer offers an ultimatum: change the words by March 16, when all the Eurovision delegations meet in Moscow, or else.

But that’s not all. Putin press attaché Dmitry Peskov has denounced the song, accusing Stephane & 3G of “pseudo-political ambitions, or simply speaking, hooliganism.” Perhaps Peskov’s feathers are still ruffled after someone leaked that Björn Again story. Maybe “Put In” is actually a Russian plot developed to distract the public from Putin’s weakness for ABBA. Did you ever think of that, Young Russia?

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