World day of fishing is celebrated on June 27. See former and current world leaders getting away from politics on fishing vacation in this gallery by TASS.
Getting away from politics: Global leaders take time off to go fishing
World day of fishing is celebrated on June 27
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin with his catch during a fishing trip to a national nature reserve in Tyva in south-central Siberia, 2013
© Alexei Nikolsky/TASS Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin spending his holiday in Russia's picturesque northwestern republic of Karelia, 1997
© Alexander Chumichev, Alexander Sentsov/TASS Local fishing guide reacts as former US president Barack Obama almost hooks a trout on the East Gallatin River near Belgrade, 2009
© Official White House photo by Pete Souza German chancellor Helmut Kohl and Indonesian President Suharto jointly admire a fish they caught off the coast of island Bira near Jakarta, 1996
© AP Photo Waves splash former US president George Bush as he casts a line while surf-fishing in Gulf Stream, 1988
© AP Photo/Kathy Willens Former US president Jimmy Carter holds a Japanese river trout he landed just after dawn while fishing in a stream near Oshino, west of Tokyo, Japan, 1981
© AP Photo/Mitsunori Chigita Cuba's leader Fidel Castro smiles after reeling in a 54 pound marlin fish at the annual Hemingway fishing tournament in Havana, Cuba, 1960
© AP Photo With a guide at the oars, former president Herbert Hoover displays a trout he caught while fishing in New England, 1939
© AP Photo First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and his son Sergei Khrushchev fishing during their visit to Yugoslavia, 1969
© Vasily Yegorov/TASS Former US president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his party embark for fishing in one of Kodiak's streams, Alaska, 1944
© AP Photo/US Navy