吉尔吉斯斯坦新任总理近日签署文件，将以俄罗斯总理普京的名字为该国北部天山地区的一座山峰命名，显示了这届联合政府对俄罗斯政府的友好。

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, is to be immortalised（使不朽） through the naming of a peak in his honour in the Tian Shan range of Northern Kyrgyzstan.

At 14,587 feet, the mountain chosen to become Peak Vladimir Putin doesn't come close to the 17,100 foot Peak Yeltsin, near Kyrgyzstan's Lake Issyk Kul, let alone reach the soaring 24,400 foot height of Peak Lenin near the country's southern city of Osh.

But there's little risk that Russia will see the gesture by Kyrgyzstan's new prime minister Almazbek Atambayev, who signed the bill to rename the peak, as anything other than a sign of friendship.

Mr Putin has warned Russians against forming a personality cult¹（个人崇拜） around him, and his aides said he did not support those who renamed the main street in Grozny, the capital of the troubled region of Chechnya, in his honour in 2008.

But the past few years have nonetheless（尽管如此） seen Mr Putin seek to bolster²（支持） his macho（大男子气概的） image with a series of publicity³ stunts⁴, such as shooting a tiger with tranquillisers（镇静剂） , and a whale with a skin-sampler gun, and collaring（拦住，窃取） a polar bear.

Mr Atambayev, whose new coalition⁵ government is widely seen as pro-Russian, flew to Moscow last week for his first meeting with Mr Putin as Kyrgyzstan's leader. Mr Putin scrapped⁶ a punitive⁷（惩罚性的） fuel excise⁸ duty and offered Kyrgyzstan a $200 million development loan.