Maybe it's old news.

But I hadn’t seen it before. They sent it to me on twitter

The “top official” in question is Dmitry Fyodorovich Mezentsev, Governor of Irkutsk Region and a member of United Russia — the “Party of Crooks and Thieves” (a popular opposition nickname for the ruling party). On Russia’s Independence Day, I wish everyone would follow the example of the Aeroflot pilot in the video and gain inner independence from these kinds of “top officials.”