Golden bust of Putin to be displayed

Moscow, Feb 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A St. Petersburg jewelry company will display a 16.38-kg golden bust of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and later use the gold to make heart-shaped pendants, a media report said.

The bust will go on display soon and a month later the pendants will go on sale at company stores, so anyone can get a "piece of Putin," the internet portal online812.ru quoted Anna Tolstykh, the spokeswoman of the 585 jeweler company, as saying Thursday.

Profits from the sale will be donated to fight against children's cancer, she said.

Putin was chosen for the campaign because in 2005 he initiated construction of the Cancer and Immunology Research Medical Centre in Moscow, Tolstykh said.

The spokeswoman said the company was not pursuing any political goals.

"We are only pursuing good intentions," she said.

Russia will be electing its next president March 4. Vladimir Putin is running for presidency after two terms in the Kremlin in 2000-2008.

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