Posted on 08/04/2009 11:42:33 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Vladimir Putin has buffed up his action-man image and raised the pin-up stakes among world leaders with another set of bare-chested holiday pictures.
Photographs were published today showing the Russian Prime Minister stripped to the waist and riding a horse imperiously through rugged terrain during a brief holiday in the Siberian region of Tuva. Wearing only green fatigues, his eyes hidden behind reflective sunglasses, Mr Putin also showed his gentler side as he fed the horse from his hand after the ride.
Mr Putin, who will be 57 in October, showed off a set of rippling arm muscles as he demonstrated his butterfly swimming technique in another picture, his face a study in concentration as he cut through the refreshingly brisk waters of a local lake.
The photos will inevitably trigger the sound of mass swooning by women all over Russia — as well as unfavourable comparisons of their husbands to Mr Putin’s manly physique. They will also confirm the Russian Prime Minister’s status as a gay icon.
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Bareback Mountain.
He appears to be growing man-boobs.
This guy has some "issues."
In serious need of a ‘bro-zere’.
“Y-M-C-A, Y-M-C-A.....!!!”
Vlad doesn’t look that good. Geesh, here’s 20 bucks, put on a shirt.
Is Vlad posing for the cover of a Harlequin romance novel?
Putin is well-trained, and could defintely kick some serious ass if he had to. That said, I’d like see some of those repressed gay people posting his pics at their rallies. That’ll take him down a peg.
I think the reporter has some issues. I think Tony Halpi is a closet Marxist.
ICK.....
.....Putin is not right in the head.
What's that around his neck, a cross?
You new background wallpaper!
The worst case of a Napoleonic complex, since Napoleon.
“Be still my beating heart.”
He looks like he could wear a B-Cup bra with those man boobs.
He stole Molly Ringwald’s TAN!
Get these two a room, and let Kaposi's sarcoma take all our troubles away....
Or Rahmbo’s desktop wallpaper.
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