In pictures: Vladimir Putin’s Siberian mini-break
LAST UPDATED AT 14:30 ON Wed 5 Aug 2009
Vladimir Putin has posed for a series of photographs during an overnight stay in the Tuva wilderness in southern Siberia. Here the 56-year-old judo expert lives up to his action man reputation by doing butterfly - one of the hardest swimming strokes - in an icy cold river.
Vladimir Putin's latest holiday snaps show the man's man on a back-to-basics camping trip
