Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse during his vacation outside the town of Kyzyl in Southern Siberia on August 3, 2009. Alexsey Druginyn/AFP/Getty Images.

Russia's despot-in-charge Vladimir Putin has been snapped alongside several people in an image that just gets weirder and weirder the longer you look at it . . . so we did ...

Vladimir Putin signed an Order on holding horse races on August 30, 2025, at the Kazan Hippodrome for riders of thoroughbred horses who will compete for the Presidential Prize.