rediff.com
News APP

NewsApp (Free)

Read news as it happens
Download NewsApp

Available on  gplay

Rediff.com  » News » Greeting a walrus... Things Vladimir Putin does
This article was first published 11 years ago

Greeting a walrus... Things Vladimir Putin does

September 04, 2013 10:09 IST

Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with a walrus during his visit to the Primorsky Aquarium, which is under construction, on the Russky Island in the far eastern city of Vladivostok
Photographs: Alexei Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Reuters

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to the country's fast east region not just met the flood-hit victims, but also shook hand with walruses.

Putin befriended the giant sea creature when he visited an aquarium on Russky Island near Vladivostok and also fed a pair of dolphins. 

The Russian president is no stranger to bizarre photocalls as he is previously been photographed going horse-riding with his shirt off, sedating Siberian tigers and polar bears, and guiding cranes to new migration routes in a microlight

Click on MORE to see other adventures of Vladimir Putin....