Posted on 01/19/2018 10:32:59 AM PST by Cecily
He's never been shy of removing his shirt in front of the cameras and asserting his masculinity to the electorate.
In his latest publicity stunt, Vladimir Putin braved icy waters to take a topless dip in Lake Seliger, north of Moscow, during the celebration of Epiphany.
He was seen taking the plunge to commemorate the Baptism of Jesus which is celebrated with a feast by members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
It was the first time the 65-year-old, who regularly poses barechested on wilderness expeditions, publicly took part in the ritual.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I have no objection to any article in which Putin takes off his shirt. Worked for James Tiberius Kirk.
Jeff Flake bares his chest too. Google it. Hilarious.
Putin needs to get on board with Patriarch Kirill’s commitment to banning abortions of Russian babies.
“Vladimir Putin As Pro-Choice Stalls Anti-Abortion Momentum”
http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/vladimir-putin-russia-abortion-pro-choice-press-conference/
Interestingly, the Mail calls Putin's participation a "stunt" but then goes on to publish a dozen photos with extensive text featuring hundreds of Russians and Ukrainians participating in this regularly held religious event.
Apparently, everybody else was not stunting, only Putin.
LOL, ...”Fortune”, ...Fake News and Prog Disinformation as part of the Slime Magazine Cesspool.
JERRY: No, we're having an intervention
Old Guy: An intervention? Who's intervening?
JERRY: There's a friend of ours on drugs and we're going to confront him.
OLD GUY: Sure, we used to do that when one of our polar bears stopped coming. We would go to his house and say, "What you don't want to be a polar bear anymore? It's too cold for you?"
Notice he doesn’t have to have his love handles removed or muscles added like Soetoro did in 2009.
Putin offers reasonable approach to abortion ban issue
certainly paints a different picture than Slimes Fortune headline:
Guess What? Vladimir Putin Is a Pro-Choice Champion
Or your personal inaccurate rewrite:
Vladimir Putin As Pro-Choice Stalls Anti-Abortion Momentum
Putin is neither a "champion" nor has "stalled" the Russian Pro Life movement. He is just consistently consulting Russian legislators and bureaucrats about policy change, something he does every time most all issues come up.
Then I'll take his Orthodox schtick seriously.
Of course the Russian news site will spin “choice” into a positive. He is basically reiterating the Democratic party backalley abortion line.
Sounds like Putin is a Christian?
Probably only nominal, and only Russian Orthodox. Other branches or denominations of Christianity (like Baptists or Pentecostals) are not really welcome in Russia.
It is still more Biblical than 90% of the DNC.
You are so committed to regime change in Russia that Putin making moderate statements on most sensitive issues makes you sick.
By your book he has to be radical to make radicals of other stripes gain support so you would have a revolution you want so badly.
The problem is Russia was first to legalize abortion in 1920 and it was a form of birth control. When the pills arrived they had a myth of hormonal health issues and abortion remained widespread.
It is not surprising that many people don’t see the problem in abortion.
But more important is that Putin’s policy in that department is less moderate than his statements and a number of abortion supporters heavily reduced while a number of people opposing abortion increased not by percents but threefold during his government. The number of abortions decreased fourfold during the same time.
The stupidity of propaganda calling Russian government ‘pro-chice’ is evident from these numbers.
The same is true about the economy and civil rights which has expanded greatly under Putin.
I wonder do they understand how stupid their propaganda da is? Or maybe they don’t care.
That is a major reason behind the growing anti-Americanism and loss of influence.
Even the Russian liberals are distancing themselves from the Department of State not to look like idiots by association.
Putin Trashes Marx and Lenin: Practice Has Shown That Marxism Was Wrong, Family Matters!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1mERkuxTfg
Flip Flop. Flip Flop.
More cleverly than Mitt Romney though. I’ll give him that.
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