Vladimir Putin calendar 2016: You’re welcome

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new decree that extends the scope of sanctions against companies operated by Turkish nationals in Russia.

The key speeches the book draws from date back to 2003, with the introduction reading: “These are the words which predicted and predetermined the global changes in the world policy”.

“We made a decision to show a copy to people in the presidential administration and they liked it so much they asked us for copies”, said Anton Volodin, who declined to comment on whether he was any relation to Vyacheslav Volodin.

Moscow (CNN)Fans of Vladimir Putin can now spend “the whole year with the Russian president” as a new 2016 limited edition calendar is released in Russia showing the country’s strongman leader in a variety of carefully-crafted poses.

Among the quotes are some of Putin’s more earthy comments, such as the promise that the Latvian government could expect to receive “the ears of a dead donkey” from Moscow (meaning “nothing”) as the result of a dispute between the two countries. “In this book we traced his words and confirmed this idea”.

Network is the spiritual heir to Nashi, the prototypical and now defunct pro-Putin youth outfit that was founded in 2005 in the aftermath of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution as part of a Kremlin effort to inoculate Russian Federation against a similar uprising.

The tome should hit Russian bookstores in January priced at 800 roubles ($15.31).

RBK cited named officials as saying they had received the present and had been told by a top Putin aide that it should sit on their desks. A recent theory emerged that the eternally youthful looking 63-year-old may actually be immortal.

A state-run corporation will replace Roscosmos effective Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, according to the Russian news agency TASS. In an accompanying letter, Mr Volodin says the book should be seen as a guide to the Kremlin’s “values and guiding principles”.