But Russian President Vladimir Putin told a Russian journalist that many of his most picturesque media appearances – shooting a tranquilizer dart into a tiger who appeared about to pounce; tagging a wounded snow leopard; and, just this week, wearing a feathery white suit to pilot a glider to guide a group of cranes south for the winter – were staged.
“Of course there are excesses,” he told Masha Gessen in Bolshoi Gorod magazine. But they were constructive deceits, he said, because they called attention to endangered wildlife.
A lot of Russians had been skeptical about President Putin’s highly publicized displays of environmental daring.
They thought the tiger looked a little glassy-eyed, and suggested he might have been trucked in from a zoo. More
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