A new cult is building around the still-popular president, and this is just one of many expressions of admiration. His fans have done everything from memorializing places visited by Putin to publishing president-praising bios for schoolkids. It’s all in the good Russian tradition of building up the strongman. So far, though, the object of all this adulation has declined to comment. No news usually means good news–clearly this is the kind of free expression Putin approves of.
