The event took place outside St.Petersburg and was attended by members of the local Cossack group.


The group’s leader Andrei Polyakov said the idea to erect monument to the acting president appeared after Russia’s takeover of Crimean peninsula and the emperor theme came up because Cossacks wanted Putin to be Russia’s leader for life.

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