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[Dixer]

It was either here or the cute lifestyles thread.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5155448.stm

Putin recalls kissing boy's belly

Mr Putin described the boy as "very sweet"


TV news report
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his controversial kissing of a boy on the stomach was just a spontaneous gesture of affection.
Mr Putin came across Nikita, five, in the Kremlin last week, lifted up his T-shirt and suddenly kissed him.

"He seemed very independent and serious... I wanted to cuddle him like a kitten and it came out in this gesture. He seemed so nice," he said.

The kiss - shown on Russian television - triggered huge public interest.

"There is nothing behind it", Mr Putin told the BBC in a live webcast on Thursday, explaining that the encounter on 28 June was quite spontaneous.

In quotes: Putin webcast

Nikita was among a group of tourists visiting the Kremlin.

The kiss triggered intense speculation in the Russian and foreign media, with questions being raised about the president's motivation.

More than 11,000 people asked Mr Putin to explain what prompted his act during the webcast organised by the BBC and Russia's Yandex website.

Russia's Izvestia newspaper, which later found Nikita, reported that he had refused to wash after the kiss.

"I just liked him [Mr Putin] and he liked me very much. I want to be president myself," the boy was quoted by the daily as saying.

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

vladamir poontang

 

[avernus]

another box checked on the list of why not to trust Putin and also think he's largely insane. if he kissed me on the bare stomach probably the first thing I'd do is wash. Probably the second thing I'd do too.

 

[classic seanc]

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=38149

 

[Bellatrix]

I watched Breakfast On Pluto last night and every time Cillian Murphy said "Call me Kitten" I imagined Putin bursting onto the set to make out with his bellybutton.

It totally added an extra dimension to the film.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

[h=1]Putin's fabled tiger encounter was PR stunt, say environmentalists[/h]

But now, four years later, environmentalists and bloggers are presenting evidence that the tiger Putin shot was no wild tiger at all – and that the animal died as a result of the stunt.

heh

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

It took them four years?
Obviously western lackeys anyway.