You may remember a few weeks back when I blogged about my relationship with 24-year-old gymnastics superstar Alina Kabaeva. When a tabloid journalist asked me about my relationship with her last week, I brushed it off. You have to expect that sort of thing when you're in the public eye. No hard feelings. I just shut his newspaper down and imprisoned him, his family, his friends and some guy who sells him his sandwiches at lunch time.

Now, Kate Clinton posts a note about me in her column for Huffington Post. I'm sorry Kate, but didn't you learn anything? You may be in America where there is freedom of speech, but in Russia we have a greater freedom. We have the freedom to trample on other people's rights. By we, I of course mean me, Vladimir Putin.Unfortunately Kate Clinton did not learn from the foolish reporter's mistake. So I have decided to shut down The Huffington Post. Arianna Huffington is probably going to call me weeping.

Arianna: "Please sir, let me have my precious media back."

Sorry, I'll say. You should have thought of that before you let Kate Clinton speak about my private life. It is either you lose the Huffington Post or I unleash this heat-seeking, rythmic gymnast upon you.

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