RUSSIA: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes a ride in a bobsled while touring a new Olympic training centre during his presidential campaign trail

Record ID: 862232

  • Title: RUSSIA: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes a ride in a bobsled while touring a new Olympic training centre during his presidential campaign trail
  • Date: 17th February 2012
  • Summary: MOSCOW REGION, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 16, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIOR SLEDDING-BOBSLEDDING COMPLEX 'PARAMONOVO' INTERNATIONAL FLAGS VARIOUS EXTERIOR OF 'PARAMONOVO' COMPLEX VARIOUS ATHLETES PREPARING TO SLED RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER VLADIMIR PUTIN ENTERING COMPLEX PEOPLE LISTENING TO PUTIN VARIOUS PUTIN SPEAKING WITH RUSSIAN NATIONAL LUGE TEAM TRAINER MARTIN HILLEBRAND PEOPLE LISTENING VARIOUS PUTIN SPEAKING AND LAUGHING WITH HILLEBRAND SLED ON ICE PUTIN IN BOBSLED, GOING DOWN HILL PEOPLE WATCHING PUTIN GOING DOWN HILL IN BOBSLED ATHLETES PREPARING TO SLED PUTIN EXITING BOBSLED
  • Embargoed: 3rd March 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA9BZFVIRLI62WISB6SU5OM2A50
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  • Story Text: Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin bobsledded down an ice track at a sports training centre outside Moscow on Wednesday (February 16) as part of his campaign tour ahead of March presidential elections.
    Putin, during a visit to the Paramonovo track - a venue which, according to media reports, is slated to host the upcoming European Luge Championship and World Cup Final race, observed Russian bobsled and luge athletes training and stopped to talk with Russian national luge team trainer Martin Hillebrand in German.
    Russia's Prime Minister and top presidential candidate also took the opportunity to try out one of the bobsleds, and coasted down an ice track several times with the help of several athletes.
    Vladimir Putin was president from 2000 until 2008, when he ushered Dmitry Medvedev into the Kremlin because of a constitutional bar on three successive terms as head of state. He became prime minister but remained the dominant leader of the country.
    Putin presents himself as a man of action working for the good of the people and dismisses rivals as divided and lacking in any realistic policies to overcome the country's problems of industrial decay and poor transport and communications.
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