"Rootin' Tootin' Putin": Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Things He's Done

Recently, my friends who do Quiz bowl/Knowledge bowl told me that there was a question asking about someone who rides horses while being shirtless. The answer was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia, also known as Rootin' Tootin' Putin by my seventh grade social studies teacher. Anyway I began wondering if he's done anything else, um, interesting. (You know, besides doing stuff as the President of Russia...)


Well, take a look.

1. Maybe he saved a television crew from a tiger... According to The Telegraph, according to Russian media, Putin was visiting the Ussuri reserve to see how researchers monitor the tigers, and suddenly, a tiger escaped and charged towards a nearby television crew. Putin pulled out a tranquilizer gun and shot the tiger. (But it wasn't caught on camera...)
2. He flew with migrating birds in a glider. Dressed in a puffy white jumpsuit, Putin flew in a motorized hang glider and led cranes on their migration path. Fun fact: The cranes were considered by the area's original inhabitants to be gods.
3. While scuba diving, he "found" pieces of ancient pottery. This one was basically a fail. Putin went scuba diving and came up holding pieces of what appeared to be ancient Greek pottery. However, many people were suspicious. After all, he had only gone to water about six feet deep. The chances that ancient pottery had just been sitting there without anyone seeing? Heh, almost none. Soon, Putin's spokesman revealed that it had all been set up.
4. His puppy was named by a five year old kid. (The human kind of kid, not the goat. I'm just clarifying. I wouldn't put it past Putin to discuss puppy names with young goats...) Putin received a Bulgarian shepherd puppy from Bulgaria's head of state after signing some natural gas deals. He asked for name ideas from the public and finally chose Buffy, a name suggested by Dima Sokolov. Later on, Putin gave the boy an autographed soccer ball when he and his family visited Putin and met the puppy.
5. Judo. On his 56th birthday, Putin released an instructional judo video creatively titled "Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin." I'm pretty sure he's the only President to ever make an instructional Judo DVD...

http://imgur.com/gallery/Bj2vb