"I can assure you that they are not lost or out of contact. I never said the Russians were lost."
![Vladimir Putin Calls John McCain ‘Nuts’ During Twitter Fight: Sen. McCain and Prime Minister Putin engaged in war of words over Russian elections
Protests seen across Russia following the election are the largest in over 20 years. McCain seized the opportunity to liken them to the ones that toppled governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, and he took to Twitter on the day after the election, saying, “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you.”
Speaking on a call-in TV show, Putin, who is well-known for his macho demeanor, explained that McCain “can’t live without the kind of disgusting, repulsive scenes like the killing of Gadhafi,” and dismissed the Arizona Republican’s remarks about the potential power of the Russian protests.
“Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts,” Putin said, according to the Associated Press.
McCain again struck back at Putin via Twitter, saying, “Dear Vlad, is it something I said?”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwbiygfaFd1qzsz2ao1_500.png)
Protests seen across Russia following the election are the largest in over 20 years. McCain seized the opportunity to liken them to the ones that toppled governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere, and he took to Twitter on the day after the election, saying, “Dear Vlad, The #ArabSpring is coming to a neighborhood near you.”
Speaking on a call-in TV show, Putin, who is well-known for his macho demeanor, explained that McCain “can’t live without the kind of disgusting, repulsive scenes like the killing of Gadhafi,” and dismissed the Arizona Republican’s remarks about the potential power of the Russian protests.
“Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone [in his place] would go nuts,” Putin said, according to the Associated Press.
McCain again struck back at Putin via Twitter, saying, “Dear Vlad, is it something I said?”
"When night fell, the countdown continued. The steel supports were drawn back from the rocket. As the Chief Designer watched and waited for signs that would force him to halt the countdown, he could only trust that his decades of sacrifice and suffering had been enough. But according to reliable sources, he had also performed a good-luck ritual: Hours before, he had stood beside his towering creation and relieved himself on it."
— A Shift in the Cold War Balance: With the launch of Sputnik, The Soviets open a new Frontier and catch America off guard - from U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 issue on 1957: a year that changed America. Today marks 54 years since the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4th, 1957.
