Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister. The Prime Minister took a one-day holiday and spent it in Tuva in a tent town on the banks of the Khemchik River. He went down the river in an inflatable boat, negotiated several rapids and met with Andrei Subbotin, senior researcher at the Alexei Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is working on a programme initiated by Mr Putin in 2007 to research and protect the snow leopard.
Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister took a one-day holiday and spent it in Tuva in a tent town on the banks of the Khemchik River. He went down the river in an inflatable boat, negotiated several rapids and met with Andrei Subbotin, senior researcher at the Alexei Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is working on a programme initiated by Mr Putin in 2007 to research and protect the snow leopard.
