MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who has crossed the 1.5-million follower mark on Instagram thanked his subscribers with a smiling selfie taken in a gym on Tuesday.

"1.5 million! Thank you for attention! Do sports!" the prime minister said in a commentary to his second selfie published on Instagram.

Medvedev shared his first selfie on Instagram last June after getting 400,000 followers. The picture garnered over 196,000 likes.

The Russian premier is an active social media user with accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Vkontakte, a Russian social networking site.