Putin Gets Spectacularly Ambushed After Leaving His Bunker

Vyacheslav Prokofyev / via REUTERS Vladimir Putin has ventured out of his safety net for the first time in months and walked smack dab into an ambush during a televised meeting that went off the rails. Fresh off a tightly controlled publicity stunt in Irkutsk on Friday—where the Russian leader, flanked by bodyguards, made a show of inspecting aircraft—Putin sat down with Kazakhstan’s president in the Russian city of Omsk on Saturday. The 73-year-old Russian president could barely conceal his…