Putin should win for “trying to stop the bloodshed” in Syria, said Iosif Kobzon, also a parliamentarian from Putin’s United Russia party.
On Tuesday, this man, a popular Russian singer named Iosif Kobzon, said he was part of a group that had nominated Vladimir Putin for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with popular singer Iosif Kobzon at an award ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow August 29, 2012.
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Kobzon said Putin "deserves" the prize more than Obama, who won a Nobel in 2009.
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Kobzon is kind of like a Russian Frank Sinatra. He's been belting it out for decades.
He's also been haunted by allegations of links to the Russian mafia. He's been repeatedly denied a U.S. visa as a result.
