One month, there's Vladimir Putin topless in the woods with a gun. On the next page, he's fishing in a white button-down shirt and pants. No, they're not pictures from the Russian president's eHarmony page.
They're from a calendar devoted to pictures of Putin that make him look strong, yet likable.
People in Moscow usually put up calendars and portraits of Putin in the office as a joke. But in some parts of Russia, mostly in rural regions, people are completely serious about it.
Putin is almost like a religious icon there. "They really feel that Vladimir Putin's a powerful man," Tatyana Ivanova (Bussiness Insider) says.
It's not easy to figure out where these calendars are produced. They're mostly sold on eBay and Amazon by online vendors based in Russia.
One eBay seller says that Putin calendar sales spike after media coverage, which is no surprise. Western media like CNN, for example, loves to feature these calendars every year.
"We were watching every day and every hour. We were expecting that he would save them because so many countries were asking him to save the people [trapped inside]," Kuznetsov, who left Russia in 1992, says. "He didn't allow anybody."
Meanwhile, in Russia, Putin may have some competition this year from former Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin. Calendars of Stalin are suddenly in demand again. And that's definitely not a joke.