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.”
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| 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).
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| 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.
