- Does Mickey Rourke ever wish he was a woman? After his visit to Russia this week, he very well might do.
You see, Rourke went to Moscow's GUM shopping mall and squeezed into one of the Vladimir-Putin-themed T-shirts on sale there. 
Mickey Rourke queues to buy Vladimir Putin T-shirt and wears it like a proud girlfriend http://ind.pn/1umvXmV pic.twitter.com/NudAS2EMlq- But as he flew back to the States, proof emerged that in the race for the most patriotic top, Rourke had been pipped to the post.
"If you thought you'd seen it all," a Twitter user commented on this photo of the new bikini top making the rounds on social media sites.
The tandem bikini features Russian President Vladimir Putin on the left breast and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on the right, held together— or apart— by a thin ribbon. 
Если ва&#xpic.twitter.com/ibj4scGLFn440;уг кажется, что вы уже всё видели http://t.co/ibj4scGLFn- Apparently, the tops were first worn by women at "Таврида" or "Tauris", a large international "youth conference" currently being held in the Russian city of Sochi.
As you'd expect, the halter top was quick to attract online comments and suggestions on possible improvements. One commenter used the bikini to make the political allegation that Medvedev is little less than Putin's sidekick these days… 
@tomasb66 @shaunwalker7 meant Putin-Medvedev tandem is over. should be Putin only, two-headed as that eagle - for bikini top)- … while another went for a more deadpan approach.
- And some commenters' eyes must have been wandering away from the men depicted on the bikinis and bringing their subconscious into play — prompting them to use words like "knockoffs" in connection with the patriotic top.
A new take on Russia's "tandem." (You won't see any Obama/Biden knopic.twitter.com/nOcg16EkOLtp://t.co/nOcg16EkOL- With Medvedev probably still occupied with his recent Twitter hack, what Putin himself thinks about this new fad is anybody's guess. But chances are he approves, if his enthusiastic reaction to last year's Femen protest at the Hanover Trade Fair is anything to go by.
When #Putin met #Femen (yes, that would appear to be his thumbs up) via @novaya_gazeta pic.twitter.com/qpcwR0gMsF- Just remember as you venture out on the web to look for more, as we know you will: It's important to get your search terms right. Otherwise, you may end up finding stuff like this.
I am loving the #putinbikini trend pic.twitter.com/UZLARcNdgD
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