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Athlete-Paralympic Sergey Burlakov had promised to give Vladimir Putin a puppy English Mastiff, which used to be customary to give to the kings, reports TASS.
“All you have is a gift please write letters as Santa Claus. And if I may, the next litter you will give the puppy English Mastiff. Kings gave such gifts,” the athlete said at the meeting of the head of state with the working group on preparation of amendments to the Constitution.
the President thanked him in advance for the gift.
This is not the first such gift. In 2012, the Governor of the Japanese Prefecture of Akita in gratitude for the help in liquidation of consequences of the earthquake and tsunami gave Putin a puppy Akita inu named Yume. In 2017, the Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov presented him with a birthday puppy Alabai breed named Faithful.
In January 2019, the President of Serbia Alexander Vucic gave to his Russian counterpart four-month-old puppy sarplaninski shepherd named Pasha. In March, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov gave the head of state of Oryol horse and a dog named Sherkhan breed Taigan.
Putin got, and other gifts. Autumn in Nizhny Novgorod, the Russian leader gave a diamond Boxing glove. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gave him a copy of the sword of the leader of the struggle for independence of Spanish colonies in South America and national hero of the country of Simon Bolivar.
From DPRK leader Kim Jong-UN Putin went to the Korean sword. Return gift steel saber and a set of glasses with coasters.
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