Happy Vladirday!

Root-toot-tootin' Vladimir Putin is at it again, this time diving for ancient urns in the black sea.

Here's the video:

Here's a slightly cynical account of his exploits:

"Diving in the Taman gulf, the Russian prime minister immediately found two amphorae that had been waiting for him since the 6th century AD at a depth of two metres," wrote the Novaya Gazeta newspaper in an editorial dripping with sarcasm. "He was lucky: in the same place, over the last two years archaeologists and divers of the Russian Academy of Sciences managed to find only a few pottery shards."