AND FINALLY

Hilarity this week as Vlad ‘the impaler’ Putin’s most recent attempt to portray himself as Rambo, John Wayne and Indiana Jones all rolled into one, was exposed as a fake.  

After having previously been seen riding shirtless on a polar bear and leather-clad, judo-throwing hell’s angels (or something like that), in August video footage was released showing action hero  Putin emerging from a scuba dive holding two fragments of what were described as ancient Greek jars, declaring: “It’s my trophy.”

But as a spokesman has now had to admit, the treasures had actually been placed there by archaeologists keen to please Russia’s top godfather.

Nonethless, it is Putin who’s probably laughing loudest. PR job done, he can return to pissing on the  Russian constition, and ‘serve’ as President again in a cosy stich up ‘election’ next year. And no dissent or opposition to his iron-rule grip over the resources and power in one of the world’s biggest, naturally rich countries is tolerated. Nice work if you can get it, comrade!