Russians Want to Know Putin’s Views on Sex, Drugs and Stomach-Kissing

MosNews, Russia
07/03/06

What Russians really want to ask their leader is when he lost his virginity, when he will legalize marijuana and when a giant fictional octopus sleeping at the bottom of the ocean will awaken. 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, the AFP news agency report.

Putin will respond via Internet in his first-ever webcast to some of the questions posted through the BBC Online and Yandex sites, where queries can also be voted on, as part of a Kremlin media charm offensive ahead of the G8 Summit in Saint Petersburg July 15 to 17.