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Putin pics: cultivating the hard-man image

Top photos of Russia’s prime minister Vladimir Putin in action.
4.00pm, 14 Sep 2010
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VLADIMIR PUTIN: Russian Prime Minister, former president, sometime firefighter, adventurer, scientist, martial arts expert… the list is seemingly endless.

Photos from his summer and winter breaks depict Putin in an array of hard-man poses – and this slideshow brings you the best.
TheJournal.ie is convinced Putin hears the A-Team theme in his head for some of these photos:

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    Putin stares down a bear while visiting the South Kamchatka Federal Sanctuary in the east of Siberia last week. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool) Source: (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

  • Russia Putin

    The patient looks suitably worried that his prime minister is getting involved in his treatment. Putin visits air force pilot Vyacheslav Malkov (in bed) after his plane was shot down by Georgian forces in August 2008. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)Source: (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)

  • Russia Medvedev Putin

    Hanging out with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on a skiing trip in the south of the country last January. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)Source: AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool

  • Russia Putin

    Putin shows his sensitive side by feeding a baby elk in a Moscow park where animals roam free. (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)Source: AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool

  • Russia Putin

    A bare-chested Putin goes horseriding in Siberia during his summer holidays last year. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Drizhinin, Pool)Source: AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Drizhinin, Pool

  • Russia Putin

    Not a man to be stopped by seriously inclement weather, Putin heads off into the Siberian hills on horseback in February. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)Source: AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool

  • Ukraine Putin The Biker

    Putin burns rubber on a Harley Davidson Lehman Trike after meeting with bikers at a camp in Ukraine's Crimea peninsula last month.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)Source: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool

  • Russia Putin

    Putin holds a crossbow as he sits on a rubber boat at the Olga Harbor during a scientific expedition, to study gray whales last week. Any sensible whale in the locale legged it. (Alexei Druzhinin/AP/Press Association Images)Source: (Alexei Druzhinin/AP/Press Association Images)

  • Russia Putin Forest Fires

    Putin sits in the co-pilot's seat among the crew of a firefighting airplane in early August, and helps put out two of the hundreds of wildfires that swept western Russia for weeks this summer.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)Source: AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool

  • Russia Putin

    No, wait! He's just a regular guy! Putin fills the tank of a yellow Russian-made Lada Kalina at petrol station on the newly-opened Chita-Khabarovsk highway on Friday. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)Source: (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)

The following video shows judo black belt Putin pulling some slick moves. In 2008, he released a DVD called “Let’s Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin”.

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    Probably, I’m waiting for the whinge brigade to blame the government for all the job losses……

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    Windows Vista and Windows 8..need i say more?

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    You could say something more relevant. Nokia.

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    IF it does affect any Irish workforce, let the government know mid September, ya know, when they’re back at work.
    Oh and windows 8, something something..

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    So much for the ‘Knowledge Economy”…

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    Jul 17th 2014, 9:58 PM

    Ah yes, it’s FG/Labour fault a multi national company purchases another company and decides to slim down….. never let the facts stand in the way of a good whinge….

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    Microsoft is so last Monday..

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    Microsoft are pure pants.

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    They bought Nokia for the expertise and IP it has. Now they’re just basically jettisoning the staff that came as part of the deal.

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    Jul 17th 2014, 2:18 PM

    Or maybe making room for the staff of Nokia?

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    127,000 employees? That’s some wage bill every week. The mind boggles ..

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    Microsoft has had its day. With their over-complex installation systems, constant failing updates, virus’s and clunkiness. Give me apple over it any day!! Hate them!

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    Jul 18th 2014, 12:28 AM

    What does this have to do with Windows? MS have been in the mobile market for a long time. If anyone can get Nokia competing well with Samsung or Apple it’s them

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    Apple…. Future rulers of Earth if sheep like you do not wake up.

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    Any computer is capable of breaking if people don’t know how to look after it. Windows inherently isn’t faulty. Its the build of it thats shat out as an OEM version. I bought Windows From Microsoft to run on my a mac side by side. that computer does everything and windows runs perfectly without a peep as does mac os. If you know what your doing most things work and stay working.

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    What a shame to see such a large population of soon to be unemployed peoples. While the standard line people trolley out is that big multinational corporations create jobs, which is truthful to the certain extent, the mergers and acquisitions side of big business tends to do the opposite.

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