Putin kissed boy 'like a kitten'

CNN ^ | 07/06/2006 | Reuters

[NapkinUser]

MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) -- Vladimir Putin's decision to stop a small boy as he walked through the Kremlin and kiss his stomach was prompted by a desire to "touch him like a kitten," the Russian president said on Thursday.

The five-year-old boy, identified as Nikita Konkin by the press, was clearly stunned by the kiss and speculation over Putin's motivation has run wild in the week since it happened.

Curious Internet users propelled the issue to the top of a list of questions put to Putin in an interactive Web cast.

"People came up and I began talking to them, among them this little boy. He seemed to me very independent, sure of himself and at the same time defenseless so to speak, an innocent boy and a very nice little boy," Putin told the Web cast.

"I tell you honestly, I just wanted to touch him like a kitten and that desire of mine ended in that act."

[LeoWindhorse]

I have always figured Putin for a kinko....

[Kenny Bunkport]

a desire to "touch him like a kitten,"

So that's what it's called....

[LIConFem]

A Stoli-soaked kinko.

[chris_ab]

2nd thread?

[Kenny Bunkport]

Exhibiting house elf behavior.

[Al Gator]

Rootin, tootin, snootin, Putin!!

A little too much Stoli for breakfast?

[eyespysomething]

Ewwwww....an image I could have lived without. It was bad enough when I looked at the picture originally, now that phrase is running through my mind with the picture.

Ew ew ew.

[brownsfan]

When I saw it, the act seemed a little odd, nothing I'd think of doing, but harmless. We live in a jaded sick world.

Putin did that in public. He had no access to the little boy beyond what we saw, (as far as I know). And yet, we have to look at everything through the prism of pedophillia. Sad.

[MikeA]

Vladimir "Jacko" Jackson...

[sully777]

Stuned 5 year old boys are not something you want to kiss on the belly even if you think he's a kitten, Mad Vlad. Kitten's don't like their bellies touched you freakin perv!

[CremeSaver]

Huh? What in the world would make any adult do something like this to a 5 year old child not related to him? This is truly bizarre behavior for the former KGB Putin.

[agere_contra]

Quite right BF. Our instant assumptions about Putin say a lot about us.

[GSlob]

Not pedophilia but vampirism. Has anyone ever seen his shadow?

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[sully777]

When I saw it, the act seemed a little odd, nothing I'd think of doing, but harmless. We live in a jaded sick world.

Putin did that in public. He had no access to the little boy beyond what we saw, (as far as I know). And yet, we have to look at everything through the prism of pedophillia. Sad.

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Yeah, you're right. What were we thinking? Happens all the time in healthy families and in open-minded societies.

[Tokra]

"I tell you honestly, I just wanted to touch him like a kitten pussy cat and that desire of mine ended in that act."

[beezdotcom]

Putin did that in public. He had no access to the little boy beyond what we saw, (as far as I know). And yet, we have to look at everything through the prism of pedophillia. Sad.

You're exactly right. Furthermore, this comes from a country where grown men kissing on the cheek is perfectly heterosexual - customs are slightly different there.

Nonetheless, Putin should be worldly enough to know that people WILL see things through the prism of our modern-day, sick society. Still a bad move on his part.

[sageb1]

I agree. This is, or should be, a non-story.