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«“Putin” was pushed for $3300». By Vladislav Noviy. “Izvestiya”. № 211 dated November 21, 2005.

Buyers snatched up the sketches and portraits of the President
A day before president Putin’s visit to the Russian-Japan exhibition held in premises of “Metropole” in Moscow there had been an auction, where a huge remake of Ilya Repin’s “Sitting of the State Council” was presented under the name of “Session of the Federal Assembly”. Buyers snatched up the sketches and portraits of the President. The painters made a decision to use the chance and put up for $400 even a redoubted fax copy with the image of deputy press secretary of the RF President: “Depicting the Head of the Sate is undesirable… V.V.Putin has a negative attitude to usage of his image in such projects”. In the hall there were both bankers and politicians, but only emissaries, detached by “heroes” of the painting, were putting their hands in the air. Graphical portraits starting from $300 had a real ready sale. The pencil-drawn portrait of the President was sold at $3300. Someone tried to outbid Vladimir Zhirinovsky to get his photo. Vice-speaker was continuously raising a prise, but finally got greedy, and the work was sold to someone else for $900. Later on he recollected himself and bought another painting of him.