In 2012, Vladimir Putin took his media corps out to an Arctic peninsula in Siberia to showcase his leadership prowess for all the world to see.
Then he dressed up like a bird, donning a billowy white suit and white helmet, climbed into a motorized white-winged hang glider along with a skilled pilot. They took off on a flight designed to show he could get a flock of endangered Siberian cranes to follow him so they could learn how to migrate south for the winter.
Only one did.
