In an interview with CNN’s Larry King, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened to build up Russia's nuclear forces if the United States fails to ratify the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that was signed this year. He said it would take “a very dumb nature” for the United States to ignore its own interests -- but if it does, “then we'll have to react somehow.” Putin further disclaimed the statement of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates who was quoted by WikiLeaks as saying that “Russian democracy has disappeared and the government was an oligarchy run by the security services.” “We are not interfering [in U.S. affairs],” Putin said. “I would also like to advise you, don’t interfere in the sovereign choice of the Russian people.” Finally, Putin stated that the suggestions he remains the true power in Russia -- Batman to President Medvedev's Robin, as one of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks put it --were “aimed to slander one of us.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/30/putin.interview/
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