Focus explained the meaning of the expression "dog-Putin" incomprehensible to Russians. In the Kremlin, the magazine was called "Russophobic"
The German magazine Focus reported that the edition of the publication had no intention of offending Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the pun, used in the article, which caused the indignation of the Russian embassy in Germany, had, in addition to the main, other, almost a complimentary, meaning, lost in Russian. This follows from the explanations that the representative of the press service of the magazine Alisa Wagner gave RBC .