TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP/Getty Images Vladimir Putin may no longer be the president of sexy after all. The Russian magazine Sex & the City just released a ranking of Russia's hottest politicians and the shirtless-fishing, tiger-shooting prime minister is ranked... No. 2. Adding insult to injury, Putin was pushed into second place by Boris Nemtsov (right), a former deputy prime minister an...

ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images Is there anything that Russian Prime Minister and all-around Nietzschean superman Vladimir Putin can't do? Putin was in the Russian far-east on Monday for a photo-op showcasing efforts to protect endangered Siberian tigers. As if the image of Putin walking through the forest in camouflage carrying a rifle wasn't enough, Putin apparently also sedated a ti...

As a result of tensions, no UK minister or diplomat has spoken directly with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for four years, says the BBC's deputy political editor.

Vladimir Putin reaches for the oldest trick in the Russian political playbook: the good czar riding in to save the people from the nasty local boyars: Moving quickly to stamp out growing unrest, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flew to the small town of Pikalyovo on Thursday to demand that angry workers receive wage arrears and rebuke their delinquent employers. Putin told the owners of the town'...

The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin bought the political compliance of Silvio Berlusconi by allowing the Italian Prime Minister a cut from major energy deals, America's ambassador to Rome has suggested, in the most startling WikiLeaks documents to emerge yet.

In contrat to vlogging, live-journaling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimiur Putin has generally preferred to let his actions do the talking. But this Friday, Putin will make his debut as a magazine columnist in the monthly magazine Russian Pioneer. But don't expect an ideological pean to the glories of sovereign democracy. Putin's topic is management, specifically...

Mindful that Russians have been traumatized by two other financial crises in the last two decades, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tried to assure the country Thursday that it would be able to weather the current one.

Vladimir Putin turned 56 this week. To mark the occasion, Russia's strapping prime minister released an instructional video -- Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin -- on the Japanese art of judo. The video features Putin doing what he likes to do most: kickin' ass. In this latest display of manly vigor, the tiger-whisperer not only shows off his moves but delves in to the martial ar...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia is flexing his muscles again, this time in an instructional martial arts video.

You gotta love it when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin goes uncensored while on official business, as he did during talks with Nicholas Sarkozy when the French president was at the Kremlin trying to forge a cease-fire after Russia invaded Georgia. In an attempt to illustrate just how hard he planned to lay the smack down on Georgia, Putin told Sarkozy, "I am going to hang Saakashvili by...