Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year.

Putin -- wearing a beige pantsuit -- plunged down to a depth of 83 metres seated alongside the pilot in the glass-bubble cabin of the Dutch-made vessel.

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The Kremlin strongman went underwater to view the Byzantine-era wreckage in the Black Sea off Crimea that included a trove of 10th century pottery.

The remains were discovered off the coast of Sevastopol by Russian divers earlier this year.

"It is a galleon that was transporting civilian cargo through the bay of Balaclava," Putin said.

"It is still to be investigated by experts. I have to say that there are not that many similar remains like this in the north of the Black Sea."

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In 2009 he dove down around 1,400 metres to the bottom of the world's deepest lake Baikal in another mini-submarine.

Putin also hopped into another miniature submersible in 2013 to take in a 19th century naval frigate shipwreck on the bed of the Baltic Sea.

The carefully choreographed photo opportunities are designed to buff up the image of the judo black belt president among ordinary Russians.

Putin's popularity has reached an all-time high in recent months of just under 90 percent as Russia's slavish state-run media has gone into overdrive to promote him since the seizure of Crimea in February 2014.

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The two-day Dubai International Sports Conference will run through Monday.？？

ATHENS， Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Greek lawmakers approved on Saturday the 2017 budget which includes a new round of painful austerity measures in order to meet bailout goals to exit the seven-year-long debt crisis.

The budget passed with the support of 152 deputies of the two-partite ruling coalition， while 146 lawmakers of the opposition parties voted against.

The 2017 Greek state budget projects 2.7 percent growth， a 2 percent primary surplus and 2.6 billion euros (2.74 billion U.S. dollars) in new tax hikes which will be applied as of January 1， 2017 to fuel， tobacco products， coffee， telecommunications and other services.

Additionally it provides for further cuts on salaries and pensions.

Austerity policies implemented since 2010 under the bailout programs have shrank by about 40 percent the average income of Greek households， according to official statistics.

Addressing the 300-member string assembly during the debate shortly before the vote， Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras acknowledged the difficulties.

The Greek leader appeared confident that Greece was on the final stretch of a tough marathon race to reach economic recovery.

He said that 2017 will be a milestone for the debt-ridden country's exit from the crisis and the 2017 state budget was a budget of optimism and growth.

The ailing economy stabilized in 2016 and returned to growth. Unemployment was reduced from 27 percent to 23 percent and will further drop.

The Greek government will support the most vulnerable social groups as fiscal indexes are improving， Tsipras said.

The leader of the conservative main opposition New Democracy party Kyriakos Mitsotakis criticized the government that the new wave of austerity undermines the competitiveness of Greek companies and social cohesion and the targets were not feasible.

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