"...Nikita said afterwards that the president simply liked him. Nikita’s teacher explained the president’s action professionally, stating that “a kiss on the stomach is a fatherly, earthly gesture”). Elena Kolmanovskaya, chief editor of Yandex, said that the cheerful questions corresponded to an improvement in quality of life..."
Except that wasn’t Putin’s child. You Putinistas are really something. Lol!
If some grown man came up to your 5 or 6-year-old son or daughter, lifted up their shirt, and kissed them on their bare stomach, you wouldn’t have a problem with it?