In Kremlin stunt, Putin and girl, 8, lobby minister for budget funds

(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted an eight-three hundred and sixty five days-feeble lady within the Kremlin on Tuesday and obtained her to hitch him in a peculiar phone call to his finance minister to quiz for a budget grant for her dwelling plan.

The Kremlin launched video of Putin welcoming the girl, Raisat Akipova, in basically the most trendy of a series of appearances since a transient armed mutiny final month that appear designed to give an clarification for him as caring, concerned and in retain watch over.

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov at the starting save sounded bemused by the resolution and failed to answer to the girl’s greeting, but like a flash agreed to the extra funding for her dwelling plan in southern Russia.

“Very honest correct!” Putin answered, before telling the girl: “We now maintain obtained 5 billion roubles for Dagestan” – a sum an honest like $55.6 million.

Putin chuckled with amusement at some level of the conversation and a identical call that he made with Raisat to High Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The girl, preserving a bouquet of plant life, thanked Siluanov when brought on by the president.

The take a look at with changed into as soon as a sequel to a take a look at with by Putin to Dagestan final week when, unusually, he mingled with a abundant crowd of of us.

The Kremlin cited that as proof of the president’s “wonderful” give a enhance to in Russian society, days after the transient mutiny by the Wagner mercenary community that had ended in him to warn of the menace of civil war in Russia.

Putin urged Raisat he had invited her and her of us to Moscow because he had been “upset” by seeing a image of her in tears after failing to get to spy him at some level of his Dagestan dart back and forth.