As the wind blows in from the Urals, and there is suspicion of hanky panky with regard to the decided venue for the next World Cup, life is a bit hard at present for those of us who take a sympathetic interest in things Russian!
It is hard to find any positive news at all about Russia in the papers just now, and I was therefore gratified to read about Vladimir Putin’s concern to save the Siberian Tiger. He is not generally particularly interested in environmental matters, having in the past called environmental activists ‘no better than terrorists’.
I do hope that this concern for an endangered species is genuine, and not just a photo opportunity designed to show off his macho fearlessness in the face of a big cat!
