Wielding a crossbow and undeterred by high waves, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has chased whales off Russia's Pacific coast and boasted of the exhilaration of "living dangerously".
The hardman antics — barely thinkable for any other world leader — were the latest stunt by Putin this summer as he travels across Russia's far east on a tour that has given him ample chance to burnish his strongman image.
Last year Putin made headlines for similar antics when he rode through a remote part of Siberia on horseback wearing an Indiana Jones-style hat.
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