Ludmila Putin: My husband is a Vampire

Vladimir Putin hailed as virile vampire
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow
Last Updated: 6:20PM BST 19/06/2008
Vladimir Putin has enhanced his image as Russia's leading sex symbol after a commemorative magazine wholly dedicated to his virility and reputation as a "vampire" rapidly sold out in the kiosks of Moscow.

Feeding on an almost cult-like obsession among the Russian people for their inscrutable prime minister, the celebrity gossip magazine Secrets of the Stars released a special edition eulogising the ex-KGB officer.

The cover, carrying a picture of Mr Putin looking unnaturally youthful accompanied by the headline "My heart is on my sleeve", alone seemed sufficiently tantalising to appeal to most patriotic Russians.

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Most intriguingly of all, the cover promised a story about Mr Putin's wife titled: "Ludmila Putin: My husband is a Vampire".

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"We have created a monument to Putin for the common people," the magazine's chief editor, Roman Popov, said. "We wanted to show him as a pragmatic man who likes a good joke and who is strong and beautiful." Earlier in the year, the magazine easily broke its circulation record when it released an issue with a bare-chested Mr Putin on its cover that sold over 400,000 copies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/2158556/Vladimir-Putin-hailed-as-virile-vampire.html

AND just who initiated Mad Vlad the Impaler?

"found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul..." Smirk.


- Commander AWOL on his intimate "birds of a feather" crony Vladimir Putin, from a White House Press Release

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010618.html

I love Buffy

http://www.rusnet.nl/news/2003/02/03/society02.shtml



Moscow law firm was preparing to sue Warner Brothers, the factory that churns out the Harry Potter movies, for adapting Mr. Putin's likeness to Dobby, a computer-generated elf in its latest release, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."