Alina Kabaeva has gone from being dubbed “Russia’s most flexible woman” to being called “Russia’s Eva Braun”.
Mass protests have erupted across Russia after opposition leader Alexei Navalny was imprisoned, following which his team released a video about Putin’s luxury Black Sea palace.
If you haven’t had your Vlad fix for the month, here are some pictures of Putin hiking with members of his government in Siberia.
Russia may have a lot of political baggage – but this is just silly. A giant, two-storey designer Louis Vuitton suitcase was erected on the red square, just metres away from Vladimir Lenin’s sacred mausoleum – where the mummified body of the mastermind of the Bolshevik Revolution remains.