Pub puts Putin photo in urinals

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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his annual press conference in Moscow on December 17, 2015. President Vladimir Putin said on December 17 Russia was prepared to face any economic situat
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A pub in Nottingham has placed a photograph of Vladimir Putin in its urinals, reported LadBible. The Raglan Road Irish Bar replaced a photograph of former US president Donald Trump with one of the Russian leader, encouraging their punters to unleash their own protest upon him. When the pub announced its initiative in an Instagram post, one fan commented: “I’ll be round. Least I can do.”

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.