Putin tells story of bodyguards eating cheese and “tasting” wine given to the President
Russian President Vladimir Putin tells stories of delicious gifts such as cheese from producers and wine sent by colleagues that either reach him or his bodyguards eat and drink everything.
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At the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, one of the participants, a cheese producer, thanked the president for the sanctions, which now give Russian producers more opportunities to develop their businesses. He also said that he tried to give cheese nine times, but it was confiscated by the guards, because those people "did their job very well". "And they eat very well!" - the president joked.
The businessman recalled that once the security guards promised to deliver a delicious gift to the head of state, so he wondered whether they would keep their promise or eat the cheese presented to the President themselves. "They ate it themselves," Putin laughed.
Then, without further joking, the president told that once his colleagues gave him some bottles of wine, and the security guards asked him if he needed to check them or if he would drink them himself. The president replied: "Check them". And so the bottles of wine were "tasted" by the bodyguards. Anyway, he himself "doesn't drink much", - Putin added.
