Vladimir Putin and his dog met with Belarussian President Lukashenko on Monday. Here is how Kommersant reported their elaborately staged press conference:
The three main heroes – Vladimir Putin, Aleksandr Lukashenko, and Koni the Labrador [the Putin family dog] – entered the room a few minutes later. The president of Belarus did his best to get the dog’s attention. He petted him and kept trying to talk to him (he had obviously given up similar attempts with the Russian president much earlier). Koni put up with these persistent tokens of affection without complaint, but reserved the right not to return the affection. [...]
The presidents sat in the chairs prepared for them. Koni lay at their feet.
“As far as I know, you and I have no problems, Aleksandr Grigoryevich,” Putin said to start the conversation, pretending that relations between the Belarussian president and his favorite dog were none of his business.
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Great achievement in breeding, that Lab. Arguably, the most sucessful dog breed in the world. It’s Canadian, bred off the flat-coated retriever out of the UK.
Other Canadian pure-bred dogs:
(a) the Nova Scotia duck-tolling retriever
(b) the Newfoundland
(c) the Canadian husky
That’s it. That’s all.
Notably, Sergei Shoigu’s EMERCOM disaster response group uses a lot of Labs.
If I had my choice, I’d take my dog pretty well everywhere I went. It’s a terrier. There are no vermin where I live so it has no actual work.
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