Putin drives a new Russian Lada sedan on just opened final segment of Moscow-St Petersburg highway

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday drove a new Lada car on the recently completed Tver Northern Bypass on the M11-Neva highway, which links Moscow and St Petersburg.

Putin took the wheel of the Lada Aura sedan, a new model of the Russian automaker Avtovaz, of which mass production is due to start this fall amidst sanctions that significantly reduced the import of western branded cars into the country.

Putin drove to the…