Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has taken his "Forward, Russia!" motto a bit too far after stepping from the driver's seat of an SUV and then frantically trying to hold the vehicle back as it kept rolling towards a crowd of people waiting to greet him.
In the video posted online, bodyguards swiftly come to his aid and manage to stop the car, a big black Mercedes, before it bears down on a gasping crowd last Saturday in the city of Kazan....
read more from ABC News (AU). Video uploaded to YouTube by voronkov74 (June 29th, 2011)