In Vladimir, the titular monster is nowhere and ... Putin has just “won” his first election after being promoted into the presidency in 1999 by a departing Boris Yeltsin (played here with ...
Now, that doesn't explain all of it because few players who end up at first base actually start out there -- Vladimir Guerrero was (and still occasionally is!) a third baseman, after all.
Vladimir Putin delivers a video address in Moscow ... from between 24 and 36 visits in previous years, to 13 in the first year of his full-scale invasion in 2022, and eight last year.