A bear stands in front of a steaming geyser in the Valley of the Geysers of Kronotsky Zapovednik, Russia. From this week’s wildlife - in pictures Photograph: Igor Shpilenok/Barcroft Media

Vladimir Putin and Steven Seagal at a martial arts school on the outskirts of Moscow, to promote healthy lifestyles. The film star acted as the Russian president’s bodyguard in what seemed like a choreographed move.

Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images

Six-year-old twins Gelu and Edi Petrache pose in a mansion in Buzescu, Romania, on Easter Sunday.

Photograph: Ivan Kashinsky/Panos Pictures

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A dance troupe from Russia’s far-eastern Khabarovsk region performs the Gangnam Style dance

Photograph: Kim Jae-Hwan/AFP/Getty Images

guardiancomment:

Yesterday, Russian president Vladimir Putin led endangered cranes in flight (and then played with an octopus). We couldn’t help putting together a gallery of the best Putin/animal shots and getting someone to write about it.

Read our comment piece: Vladimir Putin, the benevolent zookeeper

Photographs: Fox News, Alexey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/EPA, Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images, RIA/Reuters, Definiary, Reuters, Flickr, Metro

A for taking that idea and running with it, we salute you guardiancomment.

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Watch Vladimir Putin flying with cranes (you know you want to)

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Trotsky’s assassination remembered by his grandson

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Pussy Riot, the feminist Russian punk band from which three members were found guilty of hooliganism driven by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in jail today, have released a new single called Putin Lights Up the Fires. The Guardian has edited the new song to images of Pussy Riot members and their supporters