This is the moment a circus tiger shows how Russia’s on plop of the world as it poops on America on a giant globe during a performance.

The footage, filmed in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, shows tiger Thunder posing on top of the globe as a highlight of the show.

But as his keeper looks on, Thunder starts to do what comes naturally and huge lumps of poo can be seen bouncing off America and rolling to the ground as the crowd roars with laughter.

The footage emerged on 17th March as Kremlin officials infuriated the West with claims that Vladimir Putin had won Russia’s presidential elections with a vote of nearly 88 per cent.

Local media reports said the footage filmed during an act called the ‘Tigers on the Ground and in the Air’, put on by Vladivostok Circus.

Normally Thunder is expected to walk around the ring balanced on top of the globe as it rotates beneath him.

Trainer Yaroslav Zapashny, who spent ten years perfecting the act, said. “The tiger has no aggression or anything. He just sat down and did his thing.

“Moreover, this was at the end of the trick, when the ball was already going down.”

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He added: “Not every tiger can perform such a trick, since the trick is unique.

“The globe rises to a height of 8 metres, where I walk along the planet Earth with the tiger Thunder, thereby symbolising the friendship of a predatory animal and a person.”

He said it the first time the tiger had failed to complete the trick in seven years.

Zapashny explained: “We must not forget that this is a wild animal. And he does not ask permission where and when to go to the toilet.

“Well, this is his first time doing this. He decided to go to the performance like this. To go straight for America. Well, what can you do, it happens.”