AKIPRESS.COM - He has ridden shirtless on a horse in Siberia, piloted a hand glider with migratory birds, swum with dolphins, tossed judo opponents, and dived into the depths of Lake Baikal and the Black Sea.
He is Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, and he added to his public repertoire of feats on Sunday by showing off his skills as a pianist.
He was in Beijing for the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, a $1 trillion plan for infrastructure and economic development in some 60 countries. And while waiting at a state guesthouse for China’s president, Xi Jinping, Mr. Putin sat down at a grand piano and played two tunes: “Evening Song,” by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, and “Moscow Windows,” by Tikhon Khrennikov.
Both songs are from the late 1950s, when Mr. Putin, 64, was a child and the Soviet Union was emerging from the shadow of Stalin, who died in 1953.
Vladimir #Putin plays grand piano at Chinese leader’s residence https://t.co/JGcA19PcQA pic.twitter.com/1RNbsFwvwU
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