On a pre-election trip, the Russian president attended a series of choreographed events before embracing a burly factory worker, who became an instant celebrity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/world/europe/putin-presidential-campaign-russia.html
https://day.kyiv.ua/ru/blog/obshchestvo/udar-po-ploshchadyam
https://day.kyiv.ua/ru/article/podrobnosti/o-kollektivnoy-otvetstvennosti-rezhima-putina
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/02/02/75363-postpravda