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The event was planned well before Biden’s “killer” comment, but it delivered Putin the chance to pose as a nature-loving “muzhik,” or real man.

Casting himself as a classic Slavic “muzhik,” or real man, Mr. Lukashenko has sneered at women with such abandon that he has become a caricature of boorish misogyny and an easy target for attack.

“He embraced this myth of himself as the plain-speaking ordinary guy, a muzhik, or real man, who thinks a woman’s place is the kitchen,” Mr. Wilson said.

Trump, Kiselyov said, “is what we call in our country a muzhik,” a real man.

Instead, he claimed Nemtsov as Russia's own, calling him by his first name and describing him as a "muzhik", a typical Russian bloke, and a charmer.