Russia's agriculture minister unwittingly caused Vladimir Putin to break down in a fit of giggles with his idea for exporting pork to Indonesia, a Muslim country.

Video of the president's giggles quickly went viral: The original tweet with the footage was retweeted more than a thousand times, local media covered the incident and uploads on YouTube got hundreds of thousands of views.

Alexander Tkachyov was presenting a dry report at a meeting about agricultural development when he put dropped the clanger, to the merriment of Mr Putin and other high-ranking officials.

Mr Tkachyov had been arguing that Russia should follow Germany's example and increase pork exports to Asia.