Souvenir vendors offer traditional dolls with Putin’’’’’’’’s likeness ahead of inauguration

(5 May 2012) shot of Manezh Square, Moscow 2. Wide of Russian empirical eagle on a church spire 3. Wide of souvenir shop 4. Close-up of “matryoshka“ nested doll with images of president-elect Vladimir Putin and incumbent president Dmitry Medvedev 5. Wide of a man standing in front of an shelves with “matryoshkas“ 6. Various of “matryoshkas“ with images of Soviet political figures, including Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev 7. Wide of churches by the Kremlin 8. Close-up of traditional Russian “matryoshkas“, one with the picture of Vladimir Putin in navy uniform, being disassembled 9. Wide of “matryoshkas“ being organised by seller 10. Mid of a line of Russian political leaders as characters depicted on “matryoshka“ 12. Wide of buyers looking at “matryoshka“ dolls 13. Mid of “matryoshka“ dolls with images of Obama, Atatyurk, Che, Stalin, Osama Ben Laden, Lukashenko (B