as cool as ever: From his explanation, I gathered that after painstaking selective breeding in Udmurtia (a republic in Russia), the Ideal Pig had emerged, bearing almost nothing in common with its ancestors. ... At the pig farm, Mr. Putin was intrigued by boars the size of six or seven chairs lined up side by side. Each boar occupied its own pen. The very first boar Mr. Putin approached gave him a lazy look and turned away. “Hello!” the president said to it excitedly. The boar let out a deep grunt. “It’s greeting you, Vladimir Vladimirovich!” Alexander Khlobystov said with a gentle smile to the boar. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.html?docId=684346

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