Vladimir Putin soars to new heights with cranes
Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia’s next president despite clashes between helmeted riot police and anti-Putin protestors outside the Kremlin back in May 2012. This is Putin’s third stint as president, previously he was serving as Prime Minister.
Politics aside however, Vladimir Putin’s antics outside of the Kremlin, from adrenaline filled Judo practices to sultry shirtless horseback riding, have earned him the title of one of the most interesting men in the world. Mostly recently, he soared to new heights by flying with cranes. Here’s a look at the Russian leader in recent years.
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin (front) flies in a motorized deltaplane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in a motorised deltaplane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. Putin, who has tracked a Siberian tiger and posed with a polar bear, on Wednesday took his love of wildlife to new heights by flying with cranes – to lead them on a migration route. Picture taken September 5, 2012 (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin flies in a motorized deltaplane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin (front) flies in a motorized deltaplane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in a motorised deltaplane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Vladimir Putin sits in a motorised deltaplane near a crane at Yamalo-Nenets district September 5, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Kremlin via Reuters)
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- Russia’s newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin (L) and new Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (C) watch Victory Day parade at the Red Square in Moscow, on May 9, 2012. Thousands of Russian soldiers marched today across Red Square to mark the 67 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. (Vladimir Rodionov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to athletes as he visits the Academy of Judo in Zvenigorod in Moscow Region, May 8, 2012. (Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Reuters)
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- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (front) takes part in a game at the All-Russian ice hockey festival among amateur teams at Megasport Arena in Moscow, May 7, 2012. Putin played for Team of the Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League, which competed with the Russian Legends Team. (Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin puts on his hockey equipment to play a game at the All-Russian ice hockey festival among amateur teams at Megasport Arena in Moscow, May 7, 2012. Putin played for Team of the Russian Amateur Ice Hockey League, which competed with the Russian Legends Team. (Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Vladimir Putin (C) walks in as he attends the inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, May 7, 2012. Vladimir Putin appealed for unity in Russia after being sworn as president on Monday and pledged to strengthen democracy in his new six-year term. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool/Reuters)
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- 2012: Russia’s president-elect Vladimir Putin takes his oath of office on May 7, 2012 to become Russia’s president for a historic third mandate at a glittering ceremony inside the Kremlin. (Vladimir Rodionov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (R, back) conducts a service to mark Vladimir Putin becoming Russia’s new President after an inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, May 7, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool/Reuters)
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- 2012: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) and President-elect Vladimir Putin (L) look at beer pumps in a bar after the celebration of the May Labour Day rally of the Russian Trade Unions and United Russia party in Moscow on May 1, 2012. (Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin aims at a target with a replica of a Kalashnikov assault rifle in Moscow, on April 26, 2012, while visiting a shooting gallery at an exhibition of Russian Railways’ research center. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin (C) speaks in the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg on April 10, 2012. (Yana Lapikova/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Vladimir Putin plays the piano during his visit to a theatre in St. Petersburg April 10, 2012. (Yana Lapikova/RIA Novosti/Reuters)
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- 2012: Vladimir Putin, wearing a pair of glasses, watches the main program of the Planetarium on the Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics and the 51st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first space flight in Moscow April 12, 2012. (Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Reuters)
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- 2012: Vladimir Putin (L), Russia’s outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and former Italy’s Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) attend a training session as they visit the luging sport center at the alpine ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, some 50kms from Sochi on March 9, 2012. (Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Vladimir Putin aims as he tries a sport gun at the national championship on ski races and biathlon for athletes with locomotor and vision disorders in the Laura sports complex outside Sochi on March 9, 2012. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2012: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructs a trainee during a judo demonstration at a regional judo centre in the city of Kemerovo, January 24, 2012. (Reuters)
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- 2011: Vladimir Putin holds a dental borer as he jokes with the Governor of Belgorod Yevgeny Savchenko in a dental room of a local hospital in the village of Golovchino, November 15, 2011. Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/Pool/Reuters)
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- August 2011: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) rides a motorbike as he takes part in the 16th annual motorbike festival held by “The Night Wolves” youth organization in the southern Russian town of Novorossiysk, August 29, 2011. (Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2011: Vladimir Putin signs a pipe during a ceremony to launch gas at ‘Dalneye’ gas-distribution station in the Far Eastern city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk March 19, 2011. Putin on Sunday offered Japanese companies stakes in two major Siberian gas fields which hold total reserves of about 3.2 trillion cubic metres. The pipe reads ‘Gas’. (Alexsey Druginyn/Reuters)
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- 2010: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin hugs a Bulgarian shepherd dog, after receiving it as a present from Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borisov in Sofia, November 13, 2010. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
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- 2010: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes part in an expedition to Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Preserve to inspect the snow leopard’s habitat in Tyva Republic in the Siberian Federal District in this undated photo. (Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters)
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- 2009: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. (Alexsey Druginyn/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2009: Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia’s Tuva region in this August 3, 2009 file photo. (Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters)
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- 2007: Russian President Vladimir Putin fishes on the Khemchik River near the foothills of the Western Sayan Mountains in the Republic of Tuva in August 2007. (Dmitry Astakhov/AFP/Getty Images)
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- 2007: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin walks with a rifle in southern Siberia’s Tuva region in this August 15, 2007 file photo. (Reuters)
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