Iangould
07-03-2006, 04:09 PM
I know we aren't supposed to post links or news stories without adding commentary but this is just so damn perfect as is.
Putin's on some sort of charm offensive ahead of a G8 meeting in St Petersburg and in preparation for an upcoming press conference, people were asked to suggest questions which were then voted on in an internet poll:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1677866.htm
Putin quizzed on sex, drugs, 'giant octopus'
Forget politics, oligarchs and Chechnya: What Russians really want to ask their leader is when he lost his virginity, when he will legalise marijuana and when a giant fictional octopus sleeping at the bottom of the ocean will awaken.
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Ranked most popular on Yandex Monday with 8,080 votes was a question on what possessed Mr Putin to kiss a young boy on the stomach during a walkabout in a Kremlin courtyard last Wednesday.
Mr Putin stopped to talk to the boy, who was standing by with tourists. In images shown on Russian state television, Putin crouched down, lifted the boy's shirt and kissed him on the stomach.
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Among other popular questions for Mr Putin were queries on whether the president had ever tried marijuana and whether he would legalise purchase of cannabis.
One question for the Russian president from a source identified as a 17-year-old female named Nastya asked: "At what age did you start meeting girls and when did you have sex for the first time?".
More than 3,000 surfers voted on a question from Viktor, 29, on what Mr Putin thought about the re-awakening of the Cthulhu, a fictional octopus-like creature invented by 20th century horror writer H P Lovecraft.
Russian surfers also asked when conscription service into the Russian army will end, why there is so little affordable housing and what Mr Putin was planning to do about an increase in racist violence in the country.
Queries on increasing controls on a wave of immigration from former Soviet republics and making the Crimean peninsula, a mostly Russian-speaking province of Ukraine, a part of the Russian Federation were also among the top-ranked.
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These are at least some of the most popular questions being put by Russian web surfers to President Vladimir Putin on the Yandex website in preparation for a July 6 interactive Internet question and answer session.
Personally I would have asked whether Chechen blood tastes any different to German blood.
Putin's on some sort of charm offensive ahead of a G8 meeting in St Petersburg and in preparation for an upcoming press conference, people were asked to suggest questions which were then voted on in an internet poll:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1677866.htm
Putin quizzed on sex, drugs, 'giant octopus'
Forget politics, oligarchs and Chechnya: What Russians really want to ask their leader is when he lost his virginity, when he will legalise marijuana and when a giant fictional octopus sleeping at the bottom of the ocean will awaken.
...
Ranked most popular on Yandex Monday with 8,080 votes was a question on what possessed Mr Putin to kiss a young boy on the stomach during a walkabout in a Kremlin courtyard last Wednesday.
Mr Putin stopped to talk to the boy, who was standing by with tourists. In images shown on Russian state television, Putin crouched down, lifted the boy's shirt and kissed him on the stomach.
...
Among other popular questions for Mr Putin were queries on whether the president had ever tried marijuana and whether he would legalise purchase of cannabis.
One question for the Russian president from a source identified as a 17-year-old female named Nastya asked: "At what age did you start meeting girls and when did you have sex for the first time?".
More than 3,000 surfers voted on a question from Viktor, 29, on what Mr Putin thought about the re-awakening of the Cthulhu, a fictional octopus-like creature invented by 20th century horror writer H P Lovecraft.
Russian surfers also asked when conscription service into the Russian army will end, why there is so little affordable housing and what Mr Putin was planning to do about an increase in racist violence in the country.
Queries on increasing controls on a wave of immigration from former Soviet republics and making the Crimean peninsula, a mostly Russian-speaking province of Ukraine, a part of the Russian Federation were also among the top-ranked.
...
These are at least some of the most popular questions being put by Russian web surfers to President Vladimir Putin on the Yandex website in preparation for a July 6 interactive Internet question and answer session.
Personally I would have asked whether Chechen blood tastes any different to German blood.