In what must be the ultimate stunt in Russian propaganda, PM Putin demonstrated how much he really does care for journalists, by tranquilizing a Siberian tiger that was about to eat the journalists for lunch. He then strolled over and put a satellite collar on the animal. Sound staged? Nahhh couldn’t be… To read more about our neighbour’s great leader and his latest adventure go here.
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Check this out: he is into whale research now:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/08/26/vladimir-putin-conducts-whale-research-via-crossbow/
When do we see our primeminister in field?
I think we should invite her out for a photo shoot to trap Jussi’s sex changing frogs. It would be good press when the same-sex marriage law goes through.
Heck let’s invite Putin too. Although he would probably want to send an altogether different message to Russians and use his crossbow to trap them.