プーチンカレンダーの日本での人気っぷりに、海外メディアが驚愕

イギリス紙「型破りなスタイルと、あからさまな男らしさに惹かれている」
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上半身裸で、冷たい池に入るプーチン大統領
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ロシアのプーチン大統領の2019年用のカレンダーが、日本で大人気になったことが、世界を驚かせている。ハフポストUS版などが報じた。

このカレンダーは、生活雑貨店「ロフト」限定で販売されたもの。プーチン大統領の2019年カレンダーは、俳優の田中圭さんやフィギュアスケートの羽生結弦選手を抑えて、全店舗の売り上げ1位に輝いた。購入者の多くが若い女性だという。

カレンダーでは、プーチン大統領の様々な姿が紹介されている。

1月は凍りそうな冷たい池に上半身裸で入るプーチン大統領、2月はアイスホッケーをするプーチン大統領、そして12月は雪の中で犬と戯れるプーチン大統領...。

プーチンカレンダーのあまりの人気ぶりに、海外メディアは驚きを隠さなかった。

アメリカのネットメディア「VICE」は、「日本では66歳のプーチン大統領が、34歳の人気俳優や24歳のオリンピック金メダリストより人気だ」と報じた。

イギリス紙「ガーディアン」も、「カレンダーを購入する多くの女性が、プーチン大統領の型破りなスタイルと、あからさまな男らしさに惹かれている」と伝えている。

プーチン氏とバイク集団
(01 of09)
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In this Monday, Aug. 29, 2011 photo, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center left, and leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), right, ride bikes at a motor bikers\' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, POOL, file) (credit:AP)
(02 of09)
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A picture taken on July 7, 2009, shows Vladimir Putin, then Russian Prime Minister, listening to the leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov (R), also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), during Putin\'s visit to the \'Night Wolves\' biker club\'s headquarters. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(03 of09)
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Vladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, as they ride bikes at a motor bikers\' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool) (credit:AP)
(04 of09)
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Vladimir Putin (C) poses for a photo with members of the \'Night Wolves\' bikers\' movement after watching a friendly football match between of Serbia\'s FC Crvena Zvezda Belgrade and Russia\'s FC Zenit St Petersburg junior teams at Marakana Stadium in Belgrade, on March 23, 2011. (ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(05 of09)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) and Night Wolves Moscow Bikers club leader Alexander \'Khirurg\' Zaldostanov (L) attend the opening of the Barmaley Fountain during a wider ceremony to remember the 40, 000 people who died on this day in 1942, when the city was bombed by Nazi Germany, on August 23, 2013 in Volgograd, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(06 of09)
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Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with a biker as he takes part in the 16th annual motorbike festival held by \'The Night Wolves\' youth organization in the southern Russian town of Novorossiysk, on August 29, 2011. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(07 of09)
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Vladimir Putin (L) hands over a medal to the leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, during Putin\'s meeting with members of the Military History Society in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on March 14, 2013. (MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(08 of09)
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Vladimir Putin pays a surprise visit to the headquarters of the \'Night Wolves\' biker club in Moscow on July 7, 2009. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
(09 of09)
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Vladimir Putin, center, and leader of the Night Wolves biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, right, pose for a press attending a meeting of motorbikers at their camp at Gasfort lake near Sevastopol in Ukraine\'s Crimea Peninsula, Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) (credit:AP Photo)