[maine-iac7]

You say: "He's named after a dude who used to impale petty thieves and tax evaders, and posthumously was called a vampire"

.Actually, he was baptized with the name Vladimir after Prince Vladimir, Russian Saint.

You'd make a goof reporter for the alphabe4t channels ;)

[Eleutheria5]

Putin was head of KGB in the USSR. They didn’t hold by saints. Count Vladimir “Impaler” Draco is more likely.