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For Putin and other VIPs Russian police usually just removes all other traffic and pedestrians from streets and roads, ever ambulance cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxGXT2b0W2A

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=кортеж+скорая

Most ridiculous Putin's requirement is to weld all manhole covers.

In 2013 Putin decided that he dislikes drivers' booing and started to fly to Kremlin by helicopter. To build new landing site he removed huge part of Taynitsky Garden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taynitsky_Garden

http://i.imgur.com/bUuwmp4.jpg



Manhole covers are welded shut where Obama vists aswell, it's not like Putin is crazier than the rest of them.


>Most ridiculous Putin's requirement is to weld all manhole covers.

At least in the past, welding manhole covers closed for the presidential motorcade was standard procedure in the US.

But that was when the Secret Service had a clue...




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