Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin celebrates his 58th birthday today with an orgy at his wife's second house, complete with hundreds of virgins from among the offspring of his long-suffering staff (no pun intended) and cases of vodka consumed at a rate of four per minute. Of course, that's only how we imagine the festivities going, especially after it was revealed that Moscow State University had hired the sexiest girls around to pose for a tribute calendar for their boy.
If these photos are any indicator, it's been a long road from The Beatles joke line "come on and keep your comrade warm." However, there is some debate about whether these girls are mocking or honoring the great leader.
Tabak, who says he runs a youth-oriented publishing house called Fakul’tet, told me there were no formal auditions for the thing. He found the girls through people he knew, and, according to him, no one said no. They hired a professional stylist (Sasha Rogov) and a photographer (Arseniy Grobovnikov), and finished a run of a 50,000 copies in under three weeks. It’s unclear where they got the money, though Ilya Barabanov (an editor at The New Times and himself an MGU journalism alumnus) alleges Tabakov is tied to Rosmolodezh, another pro-Kremlin youth amalgam… [Moscow Diaries]
So, it's all a secret front attempting to turn us on to the Kremlin and their campaign of terror, eh? That's typical.
