I know we have already mentioned Putin’s Army, the viral video phenomenon in which young women pledge their allegiance to the Prime Minister with displays of bare flesh, but since the story appears to have legs (if you’ll forgive the pun), here’s some background on this headline-grabbing, depressingly retrograde, doubtless man-made homage to Russia’s Alpha Dog.  Are these women playing more than the proverbial Barbie to Putin’s Ken?  From Russia Profile: