First, avmalgin put the photos together in a funny way. The tiger’s fate:
And second, does anyone know where this tiger skin came from? This definitely isn’t fake? Is this really Medvedev’s office? Or is he signing a document in the office of a Huron chief? If it isn’t fake, then it’s monstrous boorishness and cynicism to put a tiger skin on the floor of the office of the President of a country that is supposedly fighting to preserve tigers. There are only 30 of them left, if I’m not mistaken. A perfect example for all those oligarchic and bureaucratic fools. So casually dropping into conversation: here’s a tiger skin — it was the 29th of the remaining tigers in Russia. Really, where the tiger came from is beside the point. Amur, Bengal, or, for all I care, Belgorod. And how old the skin is — that doesn’t matter either. Where are Greenpeace and those guys with the panda on their logo (the WWF)? Seems like a perfect occasion for a fully appropriate and justified scandal. Update. Whew. Medvedev is not to blame. It’s all a legacy of the tsarist regime. On July 20, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the Book of Honorary Guests at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo (the former imperial residence near St. Petersburg). The tiger was killed and laid on the floor by Medvedev’s evil predecessors.