Sunday, May 19th 01:14 PM IST
Vladimir Putin IMAGE.
A woman participates in a gathering to mark the 21st anniversary of the 1991 coup in central Moscow, August 19, 2012. The hardline putsch intended to halt president Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms paved the way for the collapse of the communist party, the end of the Soviet Union and the creation of the present-day Russian state. The badge, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, reads,

A woman participates in a gathering to mark the 21st anniversary of the 1991 coup in central Moscow, August 19, 2012. The hardline putsch intended to halt president Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms paved the way for the collapse of the communist party, the end of the Soviet Union and the creation of the present-day Russian state. The badge, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin, reads, "Outgo".