News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
But Russia's gladiatorial prime minister Vladimir Putin also has another way of dispensing with his enemies: he chucks them on a mat...Putin, a black belt, has already co-authored a book on judo, which he mastered while growing up in a gritty...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Oil prices have fallen about 40 percent since surging to an all-time record of US$147.27 a barrel on July 11. Energy analysts believe that Venezuela wants the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower production quotas a means of...
News Source: Russia Today
| about 1 year ago
Critics say the U.S. bailout plan is an example of a double standard by the Bush administration, reports America’s McClatchy newspaper. "If the Venezuelan government, for example, approves a law to protect consumers, they say, 'Take notice, Chavez...
News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Just weeks after Russia's state-run media reported that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had saved a news crew from a wild tiger, he is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video. A montage on Russian television of the...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 year ago
We had Putin the topless fisherman with a ripped torso, and Putin the fearless adventurer neutralising a tiger with a single tranquiliser dart. Yesterday, on his 56th birthday, we were introduced to yet another macho incarnation of the Russian Prime...
News Source: The Scotsman
| about 1 year ago
OR a world leader renowned for throwing his weight around, it is a fitting educational film. Vladimir Putin, Russia's combative prime minister, has unveiled an instructional DVD aiming to pass on his mastery of martial arts.