Heavy Metal Fanatic To Succeed PUTIN As Rusian Leader?
December 10, 2007Russia's RIA Novosti reports: The man backed by Vladimir Putin for next year's presidential election is a heavy-metal-loving 42-year-old whose surname comes from the Russian word for 'bear'.
First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was nominated by the ruling United Russia party and three other smaller pro-Kremlin parties on Monday afternoon. President Putin later said on national television: "I have known Dmitry Medvedev well for over 17 years, and I completely and fully support his candidature."
The man who may well become leader of the largest nation on Earth said he had spent much of his youth compiling cassettes of popular Western groups, "Endlessly making copies of BLACK SABBATH, LED ZEPPELIN and DEEP PURPLE."
All these groups were on state-issued blacklists during Medvedev's Soviet-era schooldays.
"The quality was awful, but my interest colossal," he said.
Medvedev went on to boast of his collection of DEEP PURPLE LPs, saying that he had searched for the albums for many years.
"Not reissues, but the original albums," he added, concluding that, "If you set yourself a goal you can achieve it."
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