Putin spends his birthday playing hockey with NHL stars

And as you might have guessed, the former KGB agent easily netted seven goals and led his team to a 15-10 victory. Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin prefers to do things.

“Putin is a hostage of his entourage”, Sergei Pugachev, who once counted the Kremlin chief as a close family friend, told Reuters in an interview in Paris.

I love watching the charade of Putin scoring endless goals in these hockey games, and the pageantry of everyone on the ice dumbing their skills down temporarily to an infantile level. Putin was shown receiving a briefing on the Russian military operation in Syria, including the news that Russian warships in the Caspian Sea fired more than two dozen rockets at targets in Syria.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s public appearances are a good source of possible clues about the future direction of Russian foreign policy.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the outspoken head of Russia’s Chechen republic, praised him as the “most popular, manly, strong, wise and wilful politician in the world” and said he had “ruined the west’s plans to isolate Russia”.

Here’s another snippet from the song: “We’re rolling smooth, he’s the chief, which means everything will go according to plan”.

The video, which features black-clad skateboarders with Putin masks, shows Timati performing in front of the Kremlin.

“This is an artistic view of Vladimir Putin’s personal character”, says Milos Kojic, one of the organizers.

Russian artists depicted Putin as different historical figures, including Ernesto Che Guevara, Salvador Dali, and Alexander the Great.

Over the years of his presidency, Putin has never taken a break on his birthday, usually celebrating the date at work. It is his 17th birthday in the highest posts of the country.