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Fragments 11

The Kremlin Cat

In recent times there have been Socks and then India in the White House, and Humphrey and then Sybil in Downing Street. Since 7 May 2008 there is also a feline presence in the Kremlin. When Dmitry Medvedev took over from Vladimir Putin (who has a Labrador dog called Conni) as Russian president on that date, his wife Svetlana's cat Dorofei (Dorotheus) moved into the official residence.

Dorofei is a blue-eyed Siberian colourpoint chosen by Svetlana — or some say he chose her! — from a cat breeder some four years ago. It is reported that at one time the Medvedevs lived near Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, who also had a cat, and the two felines got into a fight. According to Moscow's daily newspaper Moskowsky Komsomolets, the Siberian came off second best and had to be given antibiotics for a month to recover his health. More drastically, he was then neutered to discourage future fighting.

This information is from the online English version of Pravda.

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