MOSCOW: A group of supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday presented a bust of the strongman depicting him in the heroic guise of a Roman emperor.
“We wanted to immortalise Vladimir Putin as a conqueror and statesman who returned Crimea to Russia,” said Andrei Polyakov, the head of a group of Cossacks outside the northwestern city of Saint Petersburg.
Cossacks trace their origins back to horsemen who guarded …read more
Source: The Gulf Today