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"Lord. I became weak in my eyes because of my old age," Putin joked himself.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual press conference did not pass without its lighter moments, in Moscow on Thursday.
One incident that had the audience erupt into laughter was when the president mistook the word "babay" ('Grandpa' in Tatar) for the English "bye-bye." A journalist was holding a poster reading "Babay, Putin!," which led to the confusion.
"To sharpen your question, I see a girl over there raising a poster, on it is written - Putin, bye-bye. Let us sharpen it. Ah, 'babay,'" Putin said, "Lord. I became weak in my eyes because of my old age."
Another joke came from Putin's press-secretary Dmitri Peskov who said he had received an SMS "in which I am being accused of treating RT like the US State Department would do, [by] not letting them ask a question."
The Russian president, who is famous for peppering his speeches with anecdotes and jokes, delivered one this time around concerning the dangers of getting dragged into an arms race with the US, which had his audience in peels of laughter. Here, Putin comments on the dangers of competing military buildups in the context of Russian defence spending plans.
Putin said, "I sometimes tell you different jokes about this. I can tell you another one. It is kind of an old one. But still more modern. A former officer's son comes to him, and he asks his son - Son, I had a cutlass here, have you seen it? The son says - father, do not talk me out, I exchanged it for a watch. The father says - let me see, that is a good watch; and tomorrow bandits will come to us, I will be killed, mother will be killed, your elder sister will be raped and you will come out and say - Good evening, Moscow time is 12:30."