Watch the video: Vladimir Putin takes a bath in the crowd.
Such pictures of Russian President Vladimir Putin are rarely seen. Far from the capital Moscow, in the center of Russia’s southernmost city in Derbent in Dagestan, the 70-year-old leader on Wednesday evening met a group of euphoric people trying to take cell phone photos and selfies with Putin, according to Russian state television showed. This appearance by Putin took place only a few days after the march of the Wagner mercenaries on Moscow, which was then called off. Derbent is the southernmost and at the same time the oldest city in Russia. It is located on the edge of the Russian republic of Dagestan on the coast of the Caspian Sea.