The Russian President is not one to shy away from a photo opportunity, especially one that shows what a man of action he is. Here: Putin aims at a target with a replica of the AK-47 assault rifle in a shooting gallery while attending a Russian Railways' research center exhibition in Moscow, 2012
A holiday in Siberia is just made for a spot of hunting/fishing/shooting. Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia.
Putin fishes in the headwaters of the Khemchik River in the Tuva region of Siberia
Putin hunting in the foothills of the Sayan Mountains in Republic of Tuva
Vladimir Putin on horseback in the Karatash area during his working trip to Khakassia, in 2010.
Putin holds a Kalashnikov machine gun during his visit to the Kalashnikov manufacturing plant in Izhevsk, Russia.
Vladimir Putin swims butterfly while traveling in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a pistol during his visit to a newly-built headquarters of the Russian General Staff's Main Intelligence Department (GRU) in Moscow, 2006. DMITRI ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images
Acting President Vladimir Putin, wearing a blue helmet and an oxygen mask, sits in Su-27 fighter jet after his flight into the war zone in Chechnya, in Grozny, Monday, March 20, 2000. Putin took the back seat in the two-man Su-27 fighter jet, which landed at the Severny airport just north of the Chechen capital Grozny after flying in from the southern city of Krasnodar.
Putin attempts to bend a frying pan during his visit to the summer camp of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi at Lake Seliger.
Putin prepares for an arm wrestle during his visits to the Seliger youth educational forum
Putin climbs on the wall during his visit to the Seliger youth educational forum near Lake Seliger in the Tver region of Russia, 2011.
Putin with a Semi Automatic .45 at the Construction Design Bureau, Moscow, 2009
Putin submerges on board Sea Explorer 5 bathyscaphe near the isle of Gogland in the Gulf of Finland, visiting the frigate Oleg which sank in 1869.
Putin aims at a whale with an arbalest to take a piece of its skin for analysis on the Olga Bay
Putin embarks on a dive to an underwater archaeological site at Phanagoria on the Taman Peninsula, an ancient Greek Black Sea site
Putin tries a sport gun at the national championship for ski races and biathlon for athletes with locomotor and vision disorders in the Laura sports complex outside Sochi
Putin shows a hold to a young judo wrestler at the Regional Judo Center at the Arena Sports Complex in the Siberian city of Kemerovo
Putin shakes hands with Mixed Martial Art (MMA) heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko of Russia after his victory over Jeff Monson of the US in Moscow, 2011
Putin is a good man, we ow him what cannot be repaid in his motive for defending the sovran state of mother Russia we should have never dishonored this man ever in out understanding of the Minsk agreement .he did all he could to keep peace in the regime now look what we have done shame on us as amurcas if we do not try to heal the open Russian sore of honor of this fierce sole that love's his country and his kinsmen ..
ReplyDeletemy other comment on this is that we spent to much time looking at the short coming's of our own government and should have kept the peace at all coast with Vladimir America had spent to much time mudslinging & knot enough time tending to it's own failures of state .
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