Apparently it's video day at The Awl! Here's Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singing along to "The Dug Out," a Soviet World War II ballad, with a nervous student at a Russian boarding school. (Sample lyric: "The fire is pulsing in a cramped stove/ The resin on the firewood is like a tear/ And in a dugout an accordion is singing/ About your smile and your eyes.") Say what you will about the Russian leader-he's a dictator who will not tolerate dissent in his brutal campaign to return Russia to the level of influence it had at the height of the Cold War-but you've got to admit, he has a lovely voice.