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Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozi has implied Madonna is a moralizing “slut” or “whore” after the American pop icon scrawled “Pussy Riot” on her back and used a Moscow concert to show her support for the jailed punk band.

“With age, every former s. tries to lecture everyone on morality,” Rogozin wrote on Twitter Wednesday, using the first letter of the Russian word for “slut” or “whore”. “Especially during overseas tours.”

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“Either take off your cross, or put on your knickers,” he also wrote.

Madonna performed her 1984 classic “Like a Virgin” wearing Pussy Riot’s trademark balaclava during her Tuesday concert.

She said the band, made up of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, was courageous and she was praying for their release.

The women have been imprisoned for five months after performing an anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” inside the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, calling for the Virgin Mary to “put Putin away.”