Russian President Putin isn't marketing Viagra - he's marketing himself in the revealing photos below. But just like Viagra changed drug marketing forever, so has Russian President Putin's bare chest changed politics in Russia.
Russian women who are searching for a new sex symbol, only need to look at the Kremlin's official website. There they can find highly unusual "Brokeback Mountain" style pictures of Vladimir "The Body" Putin.
Famous newspaper Pravda, published on its front page one of the photos of a bare-chested President dressed in military fatigues and offered its readers an exercise regime so they could "get a torso like Putin".
Russian women readers were reported to be "screaming with delight and showering Putin with compliments".
But some images were considered too strong for Western media, and only appeared in Russia, such as the first one below.
- Peter Rost, M.D. is a former VP of Pfizer and the author of Killer Drug and The Whistleblower.
What is that hanging around his scrawny neck, may I ask? Does he wear it every day or is it a photo op thing?
Alas, one can fight the ravages of gravity but not of age.
Posted by: Jen Morris | September 09, 2007 at 10:21 AM