October 7 marks the 65th anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to Forbes magazine, he is the most influential person in the world. But now we will not discuss his successes in the political arena, but we recall one of the most touching features of the president - his love for animals.
See a selection of the most moving pictures of the Russian president with animals!
Putin with his dog Yume.
The puppy was presented to the president by the governor of the Japanese prefecture Akita Norihis Satake in 2012 in gratitude for the help in the liquidation of the consequences of the powerful earthquake and tsunami. The name for the puppy Putin chose personally, translated from the Japanese "yume" means a dream.
year 2013. V. Putin walks two of his dogs: Yume and Shepherd Buffy, who received a gift from the Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Putin and Buffy
Putin with his beloved dog - Labrador Connie.
The dog was donated to Putin by Sergei Shoigu. It is rumored that she received her nickname from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Once Connie was present at a meeting of Putin and Angela Merkel. The President's favorite was so often approaching the Chancellor of Germany that she even frightened her.
2007 year. Putin is fiddling with the dog of American President George W. Bush.
Putin shrugs a walrus fin in the Primorsky Oceanarium on Russky Island (Vladivostok).
The President is stroking the octopus in the Primorsky Oceanarium.
year 2013. The President visited one of the reserves in Tuva.
year 2012. The president teaches to fly a nestling of Siberian Cranes.
The population of these birds is on the verge of extinction, so the biologists developed a special program for their return to the wild. Putin joined the project. Vladimir Vladimirovich has a white suit that mimics the appearance of an adult Siberian Crane.
Putin during a bath with dolphins.
year 2014. Sochi center of breeding and rehabilitation of Central Asian leopard.
Putin entered the cage with a baby named Thunder. The animal favorably treated the president, but the leopard met aggressively and even bitten the journalists.
2014. At the G-20 summit in Australia, the Russian president and the Australian prime minister posed with koalas.
In 2008, Putin was given a small Ussuri tiger for his birthday, which was later transferred to the Gelendzhik Zoo.
year 2009. The president feeds the beluga in the Sea of Okhotsk.
2010 year. Putin with the help of biologists establishes a satellite collar on a polar bear, who was put to sleep in advance.
2015 year. Putin during a working trip to Khakassia.
Putin, known for his love for dogs, examined new homes for those affected by forest fires and, seeing a cat, took her in his arms.
Putin gently considers a small chicken at one of the agro-industrial exhibitions.
2010 year. The president feeds a lion in the park "Losiny Ostrov"
2004 year. Putin and his goat. Tale.
Putin presented this goat to Moscow for New 2003 with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. The animal was placed in the presidential residence in Novo-Ogarevo.