Putin made a show of crossing the new Crimea bridge. But he was upstaged by a cat
Source: National Post
President Vladimir Putin’s handlers had thought of nearly everything for the christening of a $4 billion bridge linking Russia to Crimea.
Dressed in blue jeans and ditching his tie, Putin jumped into the driver’s seat of an orange dump truck Tuesday and drove across the bridge with cameras recording every move.
One camera in the cab of the truck captured his small talk with a construction worker who was along for the ride and broadcast it across state media.
The imagery was deliberate: Putin was sealing his disputed 2014 annexation of Crimea with a project strongly condemned as illegal by the West.
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But there was one hitch: Putin was actually beaten across the bridge.
Not by saboteurs or protesters or a stage-stealing, fate-sealing politician – but by the orange-and-white cat that roamed the bridge the day before.
Mostik, the adopted mascot of construction workers in the project, boasted to his nearly 35,000 Instagram followers Monday that he had already traversed the bridge, a full day before Putin’s first crossing.
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Go Mostik!
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after having been released from the KGOP moral cesspool of sAtAn, or whatever (got to bone up on my eNd tiMes repube oCCulTism and stuff).
