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Here’s A Statue Of Obama In A Tutu With Putin

Patrick Howley Political Reporter
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A statue at the springtime Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain depicts President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin wearing tutus like a couple of ballerinas.

The festival’s satirical statues are set to be burned Thursday, as part of a longstanding tradition.

Here’s our favorite statue, as photographed by Jose Jordan of Agence France-Presse:

Picture shows two "ninots" representing U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin set on the Falla de Ramiro de Maeztu during the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 16

Picture shows two “ninots” representing U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin set on the Falla de Ramiro de Maeztu during the Fallas Festival in Valencia on March 16. For nearly three weeks the fallas, giant structures made of cardboard portraying current events and personalities, have boomed around the city leading up to Thursday’s finale when about 760 ninots (individual figures) will be burned in a last night of revelry, as a tribute to Saint Joseph the saint patron of the carpenters’ guild. (JOSE JORDAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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