As Cairo sleeps, a brief comedic non-sequitur from Russia. GQ, in what appears to be a desperate attempt to sell magazines, sent Naomi Campbell to interview Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Global Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg last November. 

The former model began her inquisition by asking, as one would expect, about the former president's health and fitness regime. Putin's responses were downright flirty: 

"Naomi Campbell: You're in pretty good physical shape. How do you manage to keep yourself so fit?
Vladimir Putin: Probably the same way you do.

Actually, I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
Exactly. You just answered your own question.

What's your fitness regime?
I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff. I had a good work-out just the day before yesterday."

Putin then flexed, killed and ate a grizzly bear, washed it down with a liter of vodka, and proposed to Campbell.  

Flag this one for a full read after Mubarak falls, inshallah.