Putin meets with scientists at the Kushevat ornithological station near the city of Salekhard in Yamalo-Nenetsky Photograph: Alexey Druginyn / RIA Novosti/EPAThe Russian president sits in a motorised hang-glider at the Kushevat ornithological station Photograph: RIA Novosti /EPASiberian white cranes stand near Putin's glider on the Yamal Peninsula before taking to the airPhotograph: Alexsey Druginyn/RIA Novosti/Reuters
Young cranes follow Putin's motorised hang-gliderPhotograph: Alexey Druginyn / RIA Novosti/EPAPutin flies over the Kushevat nature reservePhotograph: Alexei Druzhinin/AP
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