How Putin and Shoigu’s Trip to the Taiga Became “News of the Day”



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While on vacation in Siberia with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoig, President Vladimir Putin drove a pickup truck through dense forest and crossed a rope suspension bridge. The video was distributed by the Kremlin News Service on Sunday.

Russian state television often broadcasts Putin’s various outdoor activities, thus maintaining the image of a healthy, strong and energetic leader who will be able to rule the country for many years.

A video released by the Kremlin shows Putin driving a vehicle on a snowy road that winds through dense birch trees.
Later, Putin and Shuig are shown clinging to the snow that hits the roads, surveying a ruined forest and carefully walking on a rope bridge over a frozen river.

The Dožd television channel was able to find hunting suits similar to those worn by the president in shops and find out their price. A green suit similar to the one worn by the president can be found in the Carinthia online store. A G-Loft Loden Parka jacket costs around € 456) and trousers around € 320.

Putin wore another hunting suit, brown, made of sheepskin. Dožd discovered a similar suit on the website of an institution in St. Petersburg called the Leather and Fur Workshop. The price of the jacket and pants is not indicated, the clothes are made to order.

The media, surprisingly surprised by the president’s outfit, wrote that Putin’s stylists generally always remove the labels from the head of state’s clothing immediately so that they do not accidentally catch the eyes of the journalists behind them.

The price of the VIP version of the Swedish Hagglunds BV-206 tracked SUV is about 45 to 80 thousand. euros.

In Taiga, the president and the defense minister spent several days. They both drove tracked trucks and walked through the woods. Shoigu showed Putin his workshop, which makes wood products.



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