Subscribe to the Mail & Guardian newspaper or the M&G Online ’s free email newsletter and get 15% discount on books at the Exclusive Books website. The pet rabbit of Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, Leonardo da Vinci, has died, the Telegraf newspaper reported on Thursday. Nicknamed Lisis, the five-year-old bunny possibly died of stress caused by a recent relocation to the presidential residence, Zatlers told the TV 5 channel. The presidential pet, dubbed the First Bunny by the media, was thrown into the political arena along with his owner when Parliament appointed the politically unknown surgeon Zatlers as the president of the small Baltic country in May last year. read more

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