Naomi Campbell: You are in good physical form. How do you manage to keep yourself in this form?
Vladimir Putin: Probably the same way as you.
Naomi Campbell: In fact, I do not do much, as it should, but I think that for good shape, health and calm is needed not only a healthy body, but also a healthy mind.
Vladimir Putin: quite right. You just answered your own question.
Naomi Campbell: You are engaged in extreme sports, such as riding riding without saddle, rafting on stormy rivers, car racing, skiing, hunting. Does it excite this or is it just a public? You probably had injuries.
Vladimir Putin: In the student years, I broke my finger, fucked during training, but lately I was lucky, and there was nothing like that.
Naomi Campbell: without a doubt, you make an indelible impression on women. What do you think about students who have become models for the calendar dedicated to you? [In 2010, the MSU student prepared for the 58th day of Putin's two competing calendar. For the first group, Jurfaka student group was photographed in underwear under ambiguous phrases like "Forests were put out, and I'm still grieving." Then the second group caused a retaliatory blow by posing in black and with missed mouths., Approx. ed. GQ]
Vladimir Putin: I really liked the girls, they are beautiful. I liked the calendar, but this is not the most important thing. As for the second calendar, well, in almost every country, and in Russia, I think, especially, fashionably criticize people in power. If you act in support of someone like me, you will be accused of trying to decline grace. The girls in the erotic calendar behaved their brave, they were not frightened. Being journalists, they could not not understand what they could say after the calendar publication. Nevertheless, it did not stop them, and they still prepared a calendar. So, honestly, this is what I liked the most.
Naomi Campbell: Now, Vladimir, I want to ask you what: you are considered a tough leader, so why did the Russian Prime Minister decided to take part in the global tiger initiative?
Vladimir Putin: Everything is simple here. Once I saw the transfer of Russian and American volunteers engaged in the Far East by the protection of tigers from poachers on TV. I was impressed with seen, so I decided to figure it out better. I began to read what was written about this program, and talk to experts. I decided that these volunteers should get support, so I came up with a program that several special funds supported. The initial amount of allocations amounted to 5 million dollars, and then we began to expand the program that today includes Himalayan and polar bears and other animals.
Naomi Campbell: I was hoping to see today on the Tiger scene. In fact, I was hoping to see a polar bear - because I had lived in Russia for two years. I know that you have come across a tiger face to face in vivo - what are the sensations?
Vladimir Putin: I liked it, but it is impossible to say the same thing about all my Russian colleagues. When I arrived in the reserve, the tiger was caught in a special trap made so as not to hurt animals, but to give scientists the opportunity to observe. Journalists from the first channel came to remove the plot, and were opposite the tiger who was trapped. But the tiger turned out to be smart, and as soon as the cameras earned, he slept his paw through the drone. It was seen that journalists were frightened. Later we managed to lure a tiger into a trap, so we put it with the help of a tranquilizer, and the scientist managed to do what you needed - they took blood test and even put a special collar on the animal to watch out for his movements. It turned out that it was a tigress, and blood test showed that it was pregnant. Shortly thereafter, we received frames with video cameras raised along the forests, on which this tigress with two crucibles was. So I have excellent impressions of meeting with tigers in vivo.
Naomi Campbell: As a result of the summit, the participants adopted a strategy designed to help keep tigers and take all the measures necessary for this. Do you believe that this will bring an increase in the number of types of tigers and reduce the level of poaching, and that in the near future instead of only 3200 tigers all over the world, we will have more?
Vladimir Putin: I'm sure we achieve success. I see that my colleagues from other countries are configured to solve this problem. Moreover, our colleagues from India have already taken some important steps, and other countries help them. For example, in Bangladesh, they make things that seem very interesting to us. We first heard about their initiatives, and we will undoubtedly take advantage of their positive experience.