[PJ-Comix]

LOL! The photo gallery the Post uses as "proof" of Putin's hipness proves entirely otherwise. Unless the Russians have a very very square perception of hip. Check it out for yourself.

[bgill]

I don’t see it either. He looks like a very depressed dork.

[DarthVader]

Vlad has always been a very conservative and private man. He is probably the greatest leader Russia has had going back to Catherine the Great.

He looks like the Spectre villain Kronstein (chess player) from the James Bond movie “From Russia With Love”.

[PGR88]

There were no “hip” people in the soviet union.

Those photos simply made Putin appear normal.

[Ciexyz]

It doesn’t matter what we think of him. What matters is what the Russian voters think of his ability to lead them as the U.S. ruling class tears our country apart over a hissy fit that their girl didn’t get elected and Russia makes plans to harvest all those mineral rights that Russia claims in the Arctic Circle.

[RegulatorCountry]

That first one looks like Emo Phillips in a fur hat, seems pretty hipsterish to me.

[lacrew]

I think I see the discrepancy. If you dress like the 1970s...now...you’re a hipster. If you did it in the 1970s, it just means you dressed like most people at the time.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, he looks real “hip” in those multi-colored 80s track suits :P

[ColdSteelTalon]

Yeah sure Putin was a hipster in a KGB sort of way.

[dfwgator]

It’s hip to be square.

[dfwgator]

[Buckeye McFrog]

He was KGB Liaison to the Stasi. Those types were not fun-loving guys.

[mac_truck]

Vlad the Inhaler...

[Bellflower]

He reminds me of Illya Kuryakinon (David McCullam) on the “Man from Uncle”.

How old is Putin, anyway?

[McGruff]

Hipster?