Vin Diesel nominates Vladimir Putin for Ice Bucket Challenge

Vin Diesel has nominated Russian President Vladimir Putin to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

The star also put forward Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama.

Although Vladimir Putin has not given an outright no, his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the President probably wasn’t aware of the challenge – and apparently has more important things to be thinking about.

“We’ve had other things on our agenda,” Dmitry Peskov told Russian newspaper Lenta.ru.

Other high-profile names to have taken part in the campaign, which raises money for ALS Association, the US charity that helps sufferers of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, include Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Lady Gaga and Charlie Sheen.

President Barack Obama has already declined his nomination and has made a donation to the ALS Association instead.