G7 leaders were questioned as they joked about Putin’s propensity to be photographed naked, posing for photos before the G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, began earlier this week.
The photos were made fun of on social media.
– I do not know how they planned to strip, above or below the waist. “I think it would have been a disgusting sight anyway,” Putin told a news conference during a visit to Turkmenistan on Wednesday.
– UPPER BODY: The G7 leaders joked with Vladimir Putin’s much talked about pictures in bare torso on horseback. The picture is from 2009. Photo: RIA Novosti / Reuters / NTB
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Then he gave advice to the G7 leaders. They should exercise and drink less in order to achieve harmony between body and soul, he said according to the Russian news agency Tass.
It was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson who was questioned before the G7 meeting started, when he asked the others around the table if he should keep his jacket on. Then he said:
– We must all show that we can be tougher than Putin.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded that “a bare-knuckle ride on horseback” would be necessary to make it happen, a reference to Putin’s well-directed photo sessions from previous years in which he has been depicted riding a horse, bare-chested.
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