Vladmir Putin's Birthday Gift From Belarus President: A New Tractor

[Randy]

Vladmir Putin's Gets Unusual 70th Birthday Gift From Belarus President

It wasn’t clear how the Russian leader responded to the gift

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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin got an unusual gift for his 70th birthday on Friday: a tractor.

As the leaders of several ex-Soviet nations met at the Czarist-era Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus presented Putin with a gift certificate for the vehicle. Tractors have been the pride of Belarusian industry since Soviet times.

Lukashenko, an autocratic leader who has ruled the ex-Soviet nation with an iron hand for nearly three decades while cultivating a man of the people image, told reporters he used a model in his garden similar to the one he gifted Putin.

It wasn’t clear how the Russian leader responded to the gift, which Lukashenko’s office revealed.

Putin didn’t mention the gift in televised remarks at the start of the meeting when he talked about the need to discuss ways of settling conflicts between ex-Soviet nations.

He also emphasized the need to exchange information to fight terrorism, illegal drugs and other crime.

The leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose alliance of ex-Soviet nations, have another gathering to attend next week in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana.

Thoughts?

 

[passenger]

Unusual gift.
Practical, useful gift for some; but Putin??? Wonder if he works in his garden?
Better than a new hat I reckon.

 

[Webster]

Interesting gift....shame someone doesn't shove that tractor up Putin's .......

 

[MrDawn]

lol he probably stole it from a tractor dealership in Ukraine that his soldiers sacked.

 

[passenger]

lol he probably stole it from a tractor dealership in Ukraine that his soldiers sacked.

"Minsk tractor works was founded on May 29, 1946. Having a more than seventy year history MTW has turned into one of the largest manufacturers of agricultural machinery worldwide, which employs more than 16,000 people."
http://www.belarus-tractor.com/en/

 

[Nebulous]

Putin doesn't deserve any presents.

 

[Webster]

Putin doesn't deserve any presents.

Oh, he deserves a present....

Nuremberg trials - Wikipedia

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...one given out by the rest of the world at the Hague.

 

[Nebulous]

Oh, he deserves a present....

Nuremberg trials - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

...one given out by the rest of the world at the Hague.

 

[Webster]

*deadpans* If the world ever found Vladimir Putin decorating a tree somewhere or testing the tensile strength of a high-rise window, I don't think anyone would give a rip about the circumstances...