Huh?!?!?! Putin kisses boy on stomach-CNN Reuters

Besides the whole Barbara Walters bitch slapping star today on the view....here is a nother wtf?!? moment today.


MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday stopped on a walk through the Kremlin to speak to a young boy before lifting up the boy's shirt and kissing the astonished youth on his stomach.

Putin was shown by state television chatting to graduates of military academies before he took a walk through one of the Kremlin's courtyards, often full of tourists.

He stopped and spoke to a young boy who appeared to be aged four or five and turned away shyly when asked his name.

"What is your name?" Putin asked, kneeling down in front of the fair-haired boy and holding him by the waist.

"Nikita," the clearly shocked boy answered, looking from side to side.

Putin then lifted the boy's shirt and kissed him on his stomach. The Russian president then patted the boy on the head and walked off through a crowd of astonished tourists.




http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/28/russia.putin.reut/index.html

maybe he was blowing on his stomach to make that raspberry noise. Thbbbbbbbbbbt! I kind of like that image.

and then ran around acting like Daffy duck :)

I swear, none of them are acting with any sanity. (G8, not Developing...)

TC

It's a little different over there...

Russian men walk hand in hand or arm in arm and can kiss on the lips as a greeting. This really isn't so shocking, really.

i am use to the whole cultural aspect, i work with europeans all the time, but just that the kid was shocked and that the world media published it like it was a big molesting story.

PB

it wouldn't have been his tummy, and that weren't no raspberry.

You get the picture.

...trying to one-up George, and he sneezed?...:shrug: