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   From: WoHochtDieBus@Bumsenbombers.de   
      
   "banana"  wrote in message   
   news:uM7TbIAYWnrEFwG3@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   > As I noted before, the Russian government has spent a fair bit of money   
   > paying big western and Japanese PR agencies to present it in a positive   
   > light in connection with the G8 conference.   
   >   
   > I have been waiting to see what sort of stories would be placed.   
   >   
   > In the business pages, there have already been many articles describing   
   > Moscow as a thriving oil city. Never mind the great poverty and   
   > precariousness (wages not being paid), the low life expectancy, the   
   > hand-to-mouth existence of many working class people in the city.   
   >   
   > Today, some of the western media are presenting Putin as a paedophile. I   
   > have no idea whether he is or not, but someone must certainly be behind   
   > this negative PR. Boris Berezovsky perhaps?   
   >   
      
   I believe kissing kids on the stomach is a Russian cultural thing but it   
   does look like it was a planned PR stunt, not spontaneous affection.   
      
   If you watch, you notice Putin picks the kid out and immediately puts his   
   hands on the kids waist, under the edge of shirt. He talks to the kid a few   
   seconds and then does his thing.   
      
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