Russian politics in the World’s Top

Alina Kabaeva, State Duma Deputy 

Popular Czech edition of For Men Only was rating a Russian gymnast, television presenter and Russian State Duma Deputy Alina Kabaeva as one of the sexiest female politicians of the planet. Unlike the sports career, Alina has not yet achieved stellar success in politics. 

Alina Kabaeva is Russia’s most successful gymnast and has won 18 World championship medals, 2 Olympic Medals and 25 European Championship medals. After retiring from Gymnastics, Alina became a member of the Russian parliament, representing the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

This famous gymnast was a Deputy of the Russian Federation State Duma in 2007. In that year, in addition to Kabaeva, deputy mandates were other well-known athletes - gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, and the prima-ballerina Svetlana Zakharova. There are many experts doubt that the athletes will be able to adequately represent the interests of their constituents.

”Work in the State Duma does not scare me, but care. It is good. Of course, politics - a new area for me. I need to learn a lot. But I know exactly what should prove to be no worse here than in sports. In sports, in politics you can grow, bigger goals and achieve them. Without goals I'm not interested. The work in the State Duma, as well as in sports, it is very important for me”, said Alina Kabaeva to the Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda in 2007.

Khorkina & Kabaeva

Zakharova & Kabaeva

Three years later experts note that girls don’t have any results at the arena of politics. In the beginning of their political careers they believed that they could reach the top in politics as well as they did in sports. However, sports results were based on their own titanic efforts and hard work, whereas in politics none of the real elections have never even took place.

Despite this, global ratings of beautiful girls continue to rise. And it is gladden.

Black & White

Speech is silver, silence is golden. This story about two groups of journalism students from Moscow State University. Some time ago these girls were making Calendars-2011 for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aimed at his 58th birthday. 

The first calendar, called “Vladimir Vladimirovich, we love you. Happy Birthday Mr. Putin,” featured 12 ladies from Faculty of Journalism. The erotic calendar came with captions like “You only get better with the years.” 

We love You!

“How about a third time?” asks Miss February, hinting at a third presidential term for Putin, who served two terms as president from 2000 to 2008 and is eligible to run again in 2012. Also “You put out the forest fires, but I'm still burning,” says Miss March, referring to Putin's piloting of a firefighting plane during the summer's devastating wildfires.

Putin did not have time to fully appreciate the gift, the next day he got “Alternative calendar” from models’ classmates. Students pose with taped mouths and in black dresses and asked Prime Minister their burnings questions, such as “How inflation will affect the bribes?”, “When is the next terrorist attack?” "Who killed Anna Politkovskaya?" referring to the investigative journalist shot in Moscow four years ago, or “When will they free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?” (he is the former oil magnate jailed under Putin). 

We have few questions...

 

Unfortunately, nobody knows which of the gifts Putin liked the most. His spokesman Dmitry Peskov just said, “The girls look nice, I hope they’re also good students." As for his boss, I hope that Mr. Prime Minister will not get lost in the days and months of the year.