With the G8 summit just around the corner, President Vladimir Putin took to the Internet on Thursday for a live chat in which he downplayed the threat of North Korean nuclear missiles and called U.S. President George W. Bush decent and honest.
During the conference, which ran for two hours and 10 minutes and drew more than 150,000 questions and 900,000 Internet surfers from around the world, Putin answered some 40 questions about Iran, Ukraine, Chechnya, racism and the Russian standard of living.
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