Want to make Vladimir Putin smile?
Give him a badly behaved dog and a breakfast of quail eggs.
That’s according to a 2014 profile of Putin by Newsweek’s Ben Judah, who spent three years researching the foreign leader for his book, “Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell in and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin.”
The Russian president has been in the US news lately due to — among other things — an investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign, tensions around Syria, and his reaction to the US pulling out of the Paris climate accord.
But at home in Russia, what’s his life really like?
Take a look at a day in the life of Vladimir Putin:
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Putin rises late in the morning, taking breakfast around noon. He usually tucks into a large omelette or a big bowl of porridge, with some quail eggs and fruit juice on the side. Newsweek reports that the ingredients are “dispatched regularly from the farmland estates of the Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s religious leader.”
Source: Newsweek
Once he’s finished his meal, he drinks coffee.
Next, it’s time to exercise. Newseek reported that Putin spends about two hours swimming. While he’s in the water, Putin often “gets much of Russia’s thinking done,” Judah writes.
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June 03, 2017 at 09:03PM
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