Rare Photos of Vladimir Putin

The president is a public profession. It is only on rare occasions that the head of state spends his workday without any photo sessions or the replication of his photos in the mass media. But some photographs for some or other reasons do not become part of the public domain. RIA Novosti offers its users a selection of such photos of Vladimir Putin on October 7, the birthday of Russia’s incumbent president.

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The president is a public profession. It is only on rare occasions that the head of state spends his workday without any photo sessions or the replication of his photos in the mass media. But some photographs for some or other reasons do not become part of the public domain. RIA Novosti offers its users a selection of such photos of Vladimir Putin on October 7, the birthday of Russia’s incumbent president.

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© Photo : Russian President’s press office

The photos of an expedition by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Ubsunur Hollow in 2010 stuck in the users’ memory, mainly thanks to his camouflage outfit.

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Only an off-roader can take you to remote places, which were visited by the president who is celebrating his 60th jubilee on October 7.

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Vladimir Putin practices judo seriously. This is a well-known fact. But not all of his appearances on judo mats immediately come into the media spotlight.

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In 2009, the photos made during Vladimir Putin’s vacation in the Republic of Tyva were replicated by all media organizations. But these photos captured what the president did during the day: he swam, met with sheep herders and rode a horse. Now this photo shows what the president did during the evenings: he listened to the music played by the Tyva musicians.

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And these photos show Prime Minister Vladimir Putin performing music himself.

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Last year, Silvio Berlusconi came to see Vladimir Putin. Judging by this photo, the head of the Russian state deals with the fishing rod more confidently than the Italian politician.

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A photo session of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev.

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Vladimir Putin during a recording of his New Year address, December 2001.

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Vladimir Putin at a meeting with pensioners in 2004.

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President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the Hamburg-Schleswig train during an official visit by the head of the Russian state to Germany in 2004.

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Russian and Finnish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Tarja Halonen during a walk at the Finnish President’s Kultaranta residence, 2005.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Kaliningrad, September 2006.

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RIA Novosti editor-in-chief Svetlana Mironyuk and Vladimir Putin at the studio of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 2006.

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U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the first working meeting of the G8 heads of state and governments. July 16, 2008.

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July 2, 2007. Russian and U.S. Presidents Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush at a press point in front of George Bush Senior’s Kennebunkport residence, Maine.

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Vladimir Putin at a big press conference for Russian and foreign journalists in the Kremlin’s Round Hall, 2007.