Happy birthday, Mr President? With Vladimir Putin turning 72 on Monday, this has become an opportunity for the Kremlin’s spin doctors to present their ideal notion of the septuagenarian sovereign. Ambitious courtiers have been competitively performing their sycophancy, as if in an over-the-top production of King Lear.
Posters were anonymously pasted up in Kyiv, vowing that ‘Putin will come and restore order’
The ponderous official paper of record, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, offered up a portrait of the diligent chief executive:
‘Russian President Vladimir Putin will celebrate his birthday in a working environment.
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