Vladimir Putin: the extreme-sports-loving, fly-fishing, recent Russian prime minister now re-elected into his third term of presidency by the Russian people, making this his 12th year of rule. And for many of those years, Russia loved their president, rewarding him with sky-high approval ratings (at one point the highest in the world) for effectively bringing them out of an economic tailspin in the 90s and 2000s. He had a personal brand untouched by many – with pictures of him in his various sp...