Vladimir Putin befriended and was visited by a 17-year-old who posed in an erotic calendar in order to boost his voter appeal, Russian critics of the president have claimed in a new book.
Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin report in 'The Tsar in Person. How Vladimir Putin Fooled Us All' that the Russian leader paid for models to pose in an erotic calendar ahead of the 2012 presidential election, which saw him return to the top role.
'In reality, along with the calendar, Putin also received the contact details of the girls who appeared in it,' the authors claim.
Among them was 17-year-old Alisa Kharcheva, now 32, who starred in April.
'Four people familiar with the story told us that soon after [the calendar was published], Putin's aides called Kharcheva and invited her to the president's suburban residence,' the authors, both Russian journalists, claimed.
