Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?
I'm sure that when the generalities of our cable tapping came out into the public ("Blind Man's Bluff" and various cable shows) it was publically humiliating to old KGB types, not to mention the whole Glomar Explorer thingy............Vlad seems like the type who would hold grudges.
All of these problems will be solved when Putin has a mishap on one of his PR stunt photo shoots. He'll be thrown shirtless from a horse or sink in a mini-sub or fall into his pit of sharks.