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By Guy Faulconbridge | Sun Aug 31, 3:01 PM ET

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was feted by Russian media on Sunday for saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger in the wilds of the Far East.

Putin, taking a break from lambasting the West over Georgia, apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild.

Just as Putin was arriving with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country’s main television station said. Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news.

The 55-year-old former KGB spy, who cultivated a macho image during his eight years as the Kremlin chief, was shown striding through the taiga in camouflage and desert boots before grappling with the feline foe.

He helped measure the Amur tiger’s incisors before placing a satellite transmitter around the neck of the beast, which can weigh up to 1,000 lb and measure around ten feet from nose to the tip of the tail.

The Amur tiger, the world’s biggest wild cat, has recently pounced back from the brink of extinction to hit its highest population level for at least 100 years, the WWF said last year.

Putin thanked Western researchers for being involved in programs to save the Amur tigers.

"First of all, we must thank our colleagues, Americans, European colleagues for being involved with this during a difficult time for Russia when no-one was paying any attention to this," Putin said.

Putin last year made it into glossy magazines across the world by donning combat trousers and baring his muscular torso for photographers while on a fishing trip in the Yenisei river.

Sensitive to a growing environmental movement in Russia, Putin as president redrew a planned oil pipeline route to avoid Lake Baikal and scrapped plans for an Olympic village near Sochi that could have damaged local flora and fauna.

(editing by Sami Aboudi)

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More proof of his bad-assery:

Of the USA. Me too.

I saw.
So they had a tiger captured and alert, it mysteriously escaped, he shot it with the tranquilizer gun he just happened to have on him which luckily stopped the beast before it mauled a camera crew. Then he tagged it.

Sounds like a media stunt to me.
he looks exactly like my grandpa when he was younger and my uncle!

bush wouldn’t last 2 seconds

Holy shit that’s a gangster picture right there.

bush would fly a plane over him and drop a JDAM.
Wonder what George Bush would think looking at these pics.
God he’s hot and a good leader. Screw our presidents. They’re nothing.
I’ve seen some Russian leaders on television because of the War with Georgia and I’m always impressed with how they represent themselves.

Then I see our fail leaders and its quite a contrast

you’re the biggest conspiracy theorist of them all

LOL at anyone who thinks this pic is real

I know

It is real.

Jealous?

Wish our American fucktard of leaders would look just like him?

that is easy to attain
John Mccain is a walking corpse no shit. I mean 72 years old… wthell?

…What makes it suspicious? That unlike American presidents, he’s actually in shape?

you cant say that after this year

This is why we need Sarah Palin for VP. So she can shoot wild democrats with tranquilizers when they try to escape the senate floor before a vote.

holy shit

No, I’m just not a complete moron who believes bullshit from media owned by an ultra nationalistic government is reality.

For extreme examples look to North Korea and the pinecone grenade incident or the 18 stroke round of golf.

orly

but foxnews being the mouthpiece of the US government is perfectly ok.

If Fox news was owned and run by the government you would have a point.

I said it was the mouthpiece of the US government.
Which it is. In that sense it doesn’t make a difference whether it is owned by the government or Rupert Murdoch.

The BBC is owned by the British government.
I’m not getting into a US media vs. other media thing with you.

One thing the US is truely amazing at is manipulating the media.

I take my hand off to them in that respect /tyson

so does mccain picking sarah palin

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