DID has made the Russian President Vladimir Putin into a 1/6th scale 12-inch action figure

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician who has been the President of Russia since 7 May 2012. Putin previously served as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2012. Putin also served as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus from 2008 to 2012.

Putin began his career in the KGB but entered politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1990. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined president Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly. Putin won the 2000 presidential election and was re-elected in 2004.

This upcoming 12-inch figure to be released by DID is undoubtedly 1/6th scale Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of Russia (ITEM NO: R80085) which will be made available in September 2012. This President Putin action figure will be having the NEW All-Era Body! Accessories include a Wooden Podium with Microphones and two Flags with stands will also be included! Scroll down to see more pictures ;p

Putin often supports an outdoor, sporting, tough guy image in the media, demonstrating his physical capabilities and taking part in unusual or dangerous acts, such as extreme sports and interaction with wild animals.

For example, in 2007, the tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda published a huge photograph of a bare-chested Putin vacationing in the Siberian mountains under the headline: "Be Like Putin." Such photo ops are part of a public relations approach that, according to Wired, "deliberately cultivates the macho, take-charge superhero image".

Other notable examples of Putin's macho adventures include: Flying military jets - Putin flew a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter over Chechnya in 2000 and a Tu-160 supersonic heavy bomber on 16 August 2005 at MAKS Airshow. Martial arts - Putin demonstrated his martial art skills on a tatami at the Kodokan Institute in Tokyo on 5 September 2000 and did more such demonstrations since. Descending in a deepwater submersible - On 1 August 2009 Putin descended 1395 m to the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake, on a MIR submersible accompanied by deepwater explorer Anatoly Sagalevich (who had been among the team which had reached the bottom at the North Pole in the Arktika 2007 expedition). From the bottom of Baikal Putin spoke to journalists via hydrophone.

More of his exploits can be found on wikipedia including tranquilizing tigers (2008), tranquilizing polar bears (2010), firefighting from the air (2010), shooting darts at whales wile balancing on a rubber boat in the sea (2010), test driving a Formula 1 race car (2010) and scuba diving at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek colony of Phanagoria in the Taman Bay on 11 August 2011. Truly an ACTION MAN ;p