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 Putins manly physique. They will also confirm the Russian Prime Ministers status as a gay icon.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Well, he had people killed.....so yes.
He does have good taste in handguns though.....
Wow, there’s some real Putin fans on this thread.
Hi Vlad...Yoo hoo...
Yeah, I always swoon over man-boobs. Not. Even more intriguing if Putin has taken to draping himself in the style of New York “hipsters.”
Indeed. He desperately needs some sun, which he is probably trying to get.
Sheesh, why do you have to extrapolate a homosexual angle to this? Does everything have to be filtered through the American obsession with homosexuality.
Sheer image building wise, the pix contrast well with well, the effete leaders of the “West” and are prolly effective is reinforcing the image of strength and virility inside the Rodina.
And with the cross, what’s he, a homosexual Nationalist Orthodox former KGB officer now President of Russia?
Plus, Russia has a flat tax, an economy that has, despite Biden’s brayings, a govt share of the GDP at a similar level to that of America.
moobs?
I didn't. It's in the TimesOnline article dude.
I even put it in red and bold.
Now THAT is odd. Who knew Putin was a closet Christian? Maybe it's a swastika. The picture isn't very clear. He's actually a closet Nazi.
I understand boh he and Medvedev are small guys.
He looks a little pudgy around the middle and chest. Can’t say as I see ‘rippled’ muscles anywhere.
Maybe we'll see a headline about how he died in Thailand of auto-erotic asphyxiation some day.
Now there are a couple images to do a little photo shop work with.
Obama and Putin up on broke back mountain, getting a little sun and working out some “issues”
My name is Bond, Vladimir Bond.......
Lets Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin.
(Released right before his 56th birthday)
GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
>>I even put it in red and bold.
Exactly. You did.
Frankly, makes my point, the paper is UK, the writer a Brit, part of the “West” and as such, had to throw the gay icon angle there. Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t, I don’t know, and really don’t care, doubt Putin does either.
But in the new paradigm of the West, we put them on a pedestal and filter all through that prism.
Beats the hell out of a beer summit where in the best spirit of modern America, a photo-op where no one even drank beer.
Putin’s actually riding and hunting in the Great Outdoors.
A Teddy Roosevelt persona for modern Russia.
Joe Biden did. The clip I saw just showed the cop and the racist staring at each other while Biden ran his mouth, tossed some nuts in it, then sipped his beer. The Messiah's mouth was running too, but being a silent movie clip, who knows what he was saying.
I guess we need Sue Thomas and her wonderdog Levi to interpret.
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