Tsar Vladimir's 50th Birthday Gift !!!

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VLADIMIR PUTIN is GOD'S ANOINTED ORTHODOX AUTOCRATIC TSAR !!!



Birthday gift for Putin casts autocratic shadow

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Sunday October 6, 2002
The Observer

"... To celebrate his 50th birthday tomorrow, the Russian President has been given an exact replica of the Cap of Monomakh, an ancient ceremonial crown used at the coronation of many of Russia's tsars.

A group of 60 jewellers in the Ural mountains, east of Moscow, have spent six months preparing the gift, insured for a staggering $10 million. The Cap is a golden crown encrusted with jewels and lined with the traditional sable, and named after the revered Prince of Kiev, Vladimir Monomakh, whose son founded Moscow.

Few doubt that the gift's historical associations are meant - perhaps misguidedly - to flatter the Russian leader, whose administration is keen to remind the people of their nation's imperial grandeur. The Cap of Monomakh is one of the most potent symbols of Russian autocracy.

The original weighed 2lb. Made by Oriental craftsmen in the 13th or 14th century, it symbolises the succession of power from the Byzantine emperors to the Russian monarchs, and was used to crown Peter the Great."


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