In the latest of his
trademark populist stunts ahead of next year's elections, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
went scuba diving at the site of a Greek ruin on the southern Black Sea coast -- and managed to discover two ancient jugs dating back to the sixth century.
Russians news agencies said Putin -- a novice only attempting his third scuba dive -- had descended just 2 meters and was simply lucky to have discovered the objects while surrounded by reporters because the water was so clear.
As it turns out, frogman Putin discovered a lot more than just jugs. So we've compiled a list of some of those artifacts:
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Venus de Milo's missing arms
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Mikheil Saakashvili's "I ♥ Putin" button
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky's undergraduate thesis on multiculturalism
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Anna Chapman's decoder ring
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Alyaksandr Lukashenka's signed copy of Ferdinand Marcos's autobiography
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Ramzan Kadyrov's gimp outfit
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Boris Yeltsin's "My Daughter Went To Switzerland And All I Got Was This Lousy Bank Account" shot glass
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Langley cafeteria pass
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky's 1994 tax return
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Dmitry Medvedev's cojones
Can you think of anything we missed?
-- RFE/RL Newsroom