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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's strongest buddies take a moment to relax. AP Photo
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along the Khemchik River in southern Siberia's Tuva region August 15, 2007. REUTERS Photo
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian President Vladimir Putin fishes on the Khemchik River near the foothills of the Western Sayan Mountains in the Republic of Tuva, 15 August 2007. Putin is scheduled to arrive in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on 15 August 2007 to participate in a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states. AFP PHOTO / RIA NOVOSTI / KREMLIN POOL / DMITRY ASTAKHOV
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the 3rd Russian-Finnish Forest Summit in St. Petersburg on October 25, 2009. Finland may authorise Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline to pass under its waters by the end of the year, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said Sunday during a visit in Russia. AFP PHOTO / RIA - ALESKEY NIKOLSKYI
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with young lawyers and election observers, who intend to work at the upcoming presidential elections, in Moscow February 1, 2012. The Russian presidential elections are scheduled for March 4. AFP PHOTO/ POOL/ SERGEI KARPUKHIN
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin (L) attends a meeting with young lawyers and election observers, who intend to work at the upcoming presidential elections, in Moscow February 1, 2012. The Russian presidential elections are scheduled for March 4. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Cups, containing coffee latte, are on display, with cinnamon powder illustrations of presidential candidates Vladimir Putin (C top), Gennady Zyuganov (R top), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (L bottom), Sergei Mironov (R bottom) and Mikhail Prokhorov seen on the milk skin, at the Kofein cafe in Moscow February 1, 2012. The coffee chain offered its visitors to take part in a symbolic presidential election by ordering a cup of coffee displaying their favourite candidates, while showing the results of votes on a screen nearby. The Russian presidential elections are scheduled for March 4. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Cups, containing coffee latte, are on display, with cinnamon powder illustrations of presidential candidates Vladimir Putin (C top), Gennady Zyuganov (R top), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (L bottom), Sergei Mironov (R bottom) and Mikhail Prokhorov seen on the milk skin, at the Kofein cafe in Moscow February 1, 2012. The coffee chain offered its visitors to take part in a symbolic presidential election by ordering a cup of coffee displaying their favourite candidates, while showing the results of votes on a screen nearby. The Russian presidential elections are scheduled for March 4. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends The Russia Forum 2012 in Moscow February 2, 2012. Russian and international financial leaders meet at the economic and business forum from January 31 till February 4. REUTERS/Anton Golubev
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during The Russia Forum 2012 in Moscow February 2, 2012. Russian and international financial leaders meet at the economic and business forum from January 31 till February 4. REUTERS/Anton Golubev
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin makes his way to a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on February 3, 2012. Since Putin announced in September his plan to seek a third Kremlin term in a job swap with incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev his approval ratings have dropped to the extent that he may not poll 50 percent in the first round. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL/ ALEXEY DRUZHININ
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) speaks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before a Security Council meeting, at the Gorki residence outside Moscow , on February 3, 2012. Since Putin announced in September his plan to seek a third Kremlin term in a job swap with incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev his approval ratings have dropped to the extent that he may not poll 50 percent in the first round.AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ KREMLIN POOL/ VLADIMIR RODIONOV
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) speaks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin before a Security Council meeting, at the Gorki residence outside Moscow , on February 3, 2012. Since Putin announced in September his plan to seek a third Kremlin term in a job swap with incumbent President Dmitry Medvedev his approval ratings have dropped to the extent that he may not poll 50 percent in the first round.AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ KREMLIN POOL/ VLADIMIR RODIONOV
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Gazprom officials and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin in Moscow , on February 4, 2012, to discuss gas delivery to European countries. Tens of thousands took today to the streets of Moscow and some other cities for rival rallies duelling over Russia's future, in a test of strength for the anti-Vladimir Putin movement one month before presidential polls. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets local officials during a visit to the town of Roza, in the Southern Urals Chelyabinsk region, on February 4, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
A picture taken on February 4, 2012, shows Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attending a meeting with local businessmen in the Urals city of Perm. Tens of thousands marched the day before yesterday through Moscow despite bitterly cold weather to protest against Putin's domination, with organisers disputing police claims that a pro-Putin rally elsewhere in the capital was even larger. Putin is still expected to win March 4 presidential elections where he is seeking a third Kremlin term after his four year stint as premier, but protest organisers emphasized that the polls mark only the start of their challenge. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
An employee works at the Uzor weaving plant, which produces tapestry fabric displaying images of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in the town of Vyritsa, some 70 km (43 miles) north of St. Petersburg February 6, 2012. The Uzor (translated as Pattern) weaving plant produces daily about 7000 metres (22,966 feet) of tapestry, furniture and decorative fabric displaying Russian political leaders, landscapes, sights of St. Petersburg and other cities, according to the company's website. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
An employee hangs up a portrait of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin near a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, at the Uzor weaving plant, which produces tapestry fabric, in the town of Vyritsa, some 70 km (43 miles) north of St. Petersburg February 6, 2012. The Uzor (translated as Pattern) weaving plant produces daily about 7000 metres (22,966 feet) of tapestry, furniture and decorative fabric displaying Russian political leaders, landscapes, sights of St. Petersburg and other cities, according to the company's website. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Employees work at the Uzor weaving plant, which produces tapestry fabric displaying images of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in the town of Vyritsa, some 70 km (43 miles) north of St. Petersburg February 6, 2012. The Uzor (translated as Pattern) weaving plant produces daily about 7000 metres (22,966 feet) of tapestry, furniture and decorative fabric displaying Russian political leaders, landscapes, sights of St. Petersburg and other cities, according to the company's website. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin addresses election activists in Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks to a meeting of his election campaign representatives in Moscow February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) speaks to a meeting of his election campaign representatives in Moscow February 7, 2012. REUTERS/Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting with religious leaders in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, on February 8, 2012. Putin warned today against foreigners behaving "like a bull in a china shop" towards Syria after his envoy returned from talks with President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ YANA LAPIKOVA
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin speaks at a conference of the Union of Industrialists in Moscow, on February 9, 2012. Putin in is seen as the overwhelming frontrunner in the March 4 vote despite a recent admission that he may lack the 50-percent backing needed to win in the first round. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, enters a conference of the Union of Industrialists in downtown Moscow on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists Alexander Shokhin walks at left. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drinks tea as he visits a high school in the Urals city of Kurgan, on February 13, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin smiles while he visits a school in Russia's Siberian city of Kurgan February 13, 2012. Putin set out plans to increase spending on healthcare, education and social services on Monday, trying to woo protesting middle-class voters before a presidential election he is expected to win. REUTERS/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/Pool
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) socializes with local residents in the Urals city of Kurgan, on February 13, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks as he meets university and college rectors in the government headquarters in Moscow, on February 14, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL/ ALEXEY DRUZHININ
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks as he meets university and college rectors in the government headquarters in Moscow, on February 14, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI POOL/ ALEXEY DRUZHININ
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) socializes with a young patient as he visits the Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Oncology in Moscow, on February 15, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) socializes with a young patient as he visits the Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Oncology in Moscow, on February 15, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) socializes with a young patient as he visits the Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Oncology in Moscow, on February 15, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) socializes with a young patient as he visits the Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Pediatric Hematology, Immunology and Oncology in Moscow, on February 15, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election.. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reads a document in Paramonovo bobsleigh and tobogganing center outside Dmitrov in the Moscow Region, on February 16, 2012, during a meeting on the development of the sports training centres for national teams. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks in Paramonovo bobsleigh and tobogganing center outside Dmitrov in the Moscow Region, on February 16, 2012, during a meeting on the development of the sports training centres for national teams. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election. AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Vladimir Putin dives for hidden antiques, flies fighter jets, fishes half-naked--and once someone even gave him a tiger cub on his birthday. Ahead of the presidential election in Russia, we take a look back at all the things world's toughest Alpha male has ever done. AP Photo
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L) visits a workshop of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association after Yuri Gagarin with Mikhail Pogosyan, President of United Aircraft Corporation, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, February 20, 2012. REUTERS/Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Pool
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks with soldiers in a canteen while visiting the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on February 22, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lays flowers at a military monument during a visit to the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on February 22, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with top army officers in the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on February 22, 2012. After serving two consecutive presidential terms between 2000 and 2008 and a term as prime minister, Putin is seeking a third term in the March 4 presidential election AFP PHOTO/ RIA-NOVOSTI/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin heads to chair a Cabinet meeting in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin examines military equipment and weapons during a visit to the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin examines military equipment and weapons during a visit to the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, examines military equipment and weapons during a visit to the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Second left is Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, at left is lieutenant colonel Andrei Alexeyev. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, right, examines military equipment and weapons during a visit to the Taman Motorized Infantry Brigade in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. At left back is Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Government Press Service)
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (2nd L) rides a Harley Davidson Lehman Trike as he arrives for a meeting with Russian and Ukrainian bikers at their camp near Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea in this July 24, 2010 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on Sunday to chose one of five candidates to be their new president. Photo taken July 24, 2010. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talk at Russia's ski resort Krasnaya Polyana near Sochi in Southern Russia, in this January 3, 2010 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on March 4, 2012, to choose one of five candidates to be their new president. Picture taken January 3, 2010. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Dmitry Astakhov
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (top) attends a judo training session at Top Athletic School in St. Petersburg in this December 18, 2009 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on March 4, 2012, to choose one of five candidates to be their new president. Picture taken December 18, 2009. REUTERS/Ria Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with a gun at a shooting gallery of the new GRU military intelligence headquarters building as he visits it in Moscow in this November 8, 2006 file photo. Russians will go to the polls on March 4, 2012, to choose one of five candidates to be their new president. Picture taken November 8, 2006. REUTERS/Itar-Tass
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin looks on upon his arrival to address the 100th annual conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) at the United Nations Offices on June 15, 2011 in Geneva. Putin set an "ambitious goal" for the country to become one of the five largest economies in the next decade. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI
The Alpha-Male: A look back Vladimir Putin's career
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Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse in southern Siberia's Tuva region August 3, 2009. Putin, a judo black belt who has flown in a fighter aircraft and shot a Siberian tiger in the wild, plunged into the depths of Lake Baikal aboard a mini-submersible on Saturday in a mission that added a new dimension to his macho image. Picture taken August 3, 2009. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexei Druzhinin
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