Captaining Putin's amphibious plane gave Berlusconi "extraordinary feeling of power".Byline: ANI London, Oct 24 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin came together yesterday for a macho outing. On Friday, Berlusconi took a flight on an amphibious Russian aircraft used to fight forest fires This is a list of notorious forest fires: North America Year Size Name Area Notes 1825 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km²) Miramichi Fire New Brunswick Killed 160 people. , accompanied to the plane by Putin, reports The Telegraph. Both clad in matching orange life-jackets, state television showed Berlusconi and Putin zooming out to the plane on a speedboat. The jaunt was the final event during Berlusconi's private visit to Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, city, United States Saint Petersburg, city (1990 pop. 238,629), Pinellas co., W Fla., on Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico at the southern end of the Pinellas peninsula; settled in the mid-1800s, inc. 1892. . The duo clambered aboard the Beriev Be-200, and Berlusconi sat himself down in the captain's chair. According to the RIA (Rich Internet Application) A Web-based application that approaches the speed and elegance of a local application. An RIA may refer to a browser-based application that uses AJAX or another enhanced coding technique. Novosti news agency, Berlusconi described the experience as "an extraordinary feeling of power." "This is the very same plane that flew to Italy and fought fires there in the past," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said of the Be-200. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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