Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted a rather bizarre video on the official Kremlin website showing him talking about badminton and then having a hit with president-in-waiting Vladimir Putin. While they obviously aren’t a direct translation, the subtitles done by Deadspin are rather amusing …
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The original is also rather ridiculous!
What a strange video – there’s something delicate and childish about badminton’s movements that is incongruous with the hard-man image of these two, wearing the uniform of the 1990’s Russian street hustler/criminals. All in all one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in a while.
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