Russian President Vladimir Putin may soon be immortalized as a sea captain, in Crimea, local Russian nationalist activists have announced.
Brandishing a concept artwork of Putin, in naval uniform, at the helm of a ship, Sergey Shuvaynikov, who is a local councilor for the Russian nationalist LDPR party, announced he and others were collecting money to erect the monument soon.
The statue will portray Putin steering the metaphorical wheel of the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed from Ukraine by Russia in controversial circumstances in 2014. Although the U.N. continues to recognize Crimea as Ukrainian territory and its annexation has brought much international …read more
Source: Newsweek
