Posted on 14 August 2007 by Andy
Prince Albert II of Monaco is visiting Russia this week and, according to the Moscow Times, he and Vladimir Putin took off on a camping trip together:
Russian television showed them entering a yurt, a tent used by Mongolian nomads, and touring the grounds of the Por-Bazhyn fortress, a clay labyrinth built more than 1,200 years ago when the region was ruled by the Uighurs, a Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group.
Later Putin and the prince went rafting along the Yenisey River, news agencies reported.
It’s good to see that Putin has friends he can relax with.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
It’s good to see that Putin has friends he can relax with.
Yes, especially since Gandhi isn’t around ….
August 18th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
The Uighurs were most emphatically NOT Muslim at the time that fortress was built. Whoever wrote that is a moron. Sorry.
August 18th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
All s/he had to do was check Wikipedia. Journalism is really going to hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people#840_CE-1600_CE