While Margaret Thatcher famously boasted about requiring little sleep to perform her prime ministerial duties, Vladimir Putin has seemingly emerged as an unlikely advocate for a good night's rest. "Putin said his decision to fly home had nothing to do with tensions over Ukraine ... 'We need nine hours to fly from here to Vladivostok and another nine hours from Vladivostok to Moscow,' he said in comments reported by the RIA Novosti news agency. 'Then we need to get home and return to work on Monday. There is a need to sleep at least four to five hours.'" But perhaps Putin's assertion of need is a humblebrag lost in translation: is 'at least' actually meant to indicate he deems only four to five hours sack time to be necessary? One way or the other, we don't envision the Russian president joining Arianna Huffington's sleep hygiene campaign any time soon.
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