This is the moment a pro-Vladimir Putin Russian official floored a TV journalist who quizzed him about alleged corruption.

The irate head of a district in Siberia is seen grabbing the microphone of state television channel journalist Ivan Litomin before wrestling him in a violent attack.

Burly bureaucrat Sergei Zaitsev, 52, was angry over questions on how he afforded his palatial newly-built mansion.

The reporter quizzed him on whether money from a £61 million fund for rebuilding homes destroyed by wildfires in 2015 had been diverted to fund construction of his private home.

Zaitsev - sitting at his desk - demanded: 'What the hell are you doing here?'

The official - head of Shirinsky district in Khakassia region - told the 25-year-old reporter several times to 'go away'.

As Zaitsev stood up and got physically aggressive, shoving Litomin, the journalist asked him: 'Why are you pushing me?