A macho Vladimir Putin was lauded by Russian media for supposedly saving a TV crew from a grisly death at the jaws of a Siberian tiger.
The Russian prime minister was visiting the Ussuri reserve in Siberia, observing how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild, when a trapped beast escaped and charged towards a nearby camera crew.
Mr Putin apparently quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.
"Vladimir Putin not only managed to see the giant predator up close but also saved our television crew too," a presenter on Rossiya television said at the start of the main evening news.
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