April: Keeping fit, 63-year-old Putin is shown working out in what looks like a forest fitness studio

'I like all Russian women. I think Russian women are the most talented and the most beautiful,' the March message says.

British student Jack Archer picked up a copy in October from a kiosk in St Petersburg, where he's spending a year studying Russian.

'I bought it from a kiosk in the metro and it cost 78 roubles.

'The woman said it'd been selling out really quickly every day she'd been putting them out,' he told MailOnline.

The pictures are not all from 2015 however, with at least one recognisable from a controversial Siberian fishing trip in 2013.

Putin was accused of exaggerating the size and weight of the pike, which he said he caught in Siberia in 2013.

The Kremlin claimed Mr Putin, 60, had caught a 46lb pike – a weight that would equal records claimed in Britain and the United States.