Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, used a motorized hang-glider to lead captive Siberian cranes to freedom on Wednesday. But the stunt was not unusual for a man accustomed to public displays of avocational skill. Here are a few of his many talents.
Putin has been learning to fly a glider for the past several months in preparation for the event in an Arctic peninsula, which the Interfax news agency reported Sept. 5, 2012. The cranes, raised in captivity, do not know how to fly south, and environmentalists have to devise an imitation lead crane to show them the way. Left, Putin waits in a motorized hang glider next to a Siberian white crane, on the Yamal Peninsula.
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