A spokesman for Russian government spokesman admitted that a that showing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discovering two ancient vases while scuba diving in the Black Sea was . The video is part of a package intended to boost Putin’s image in preparation for next year鈥檚 presidential elections. 鈥淧utin did not find an amphora that had been lying on the bottom for many thousands of years. That is obvious,鈥 said Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov. 鈥淭his is completely normal. It is totally not a pretext for malicious joy and so forth.鈥
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