A little girl in pink has become an internet star in Russia after making a menacing gesture at the governor of the Moscow region as he sought to calm a protest over a toxic landfill dump.

Wearing a pink ski hat and bright jacket, Tanya Lozova was caught on camera pointing her finger in a cut-throat gesture at governor Andrei Vorobyov.

He was promising furious protesters that he would quickly deal with the impact of the landfill that has sickened dozens of children in the town of Volokolamsk, west of Moscow.

Tanya told Dozhd TV that her gesture was meant to say: "You are killing us!"

The 10-year-old said she wants the landfill to close so that "people finally could breathe fresh air".

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