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Billionaire Putin accused of stealing the ring than the Russian side made excuses at the highest level ...

American billionaire Robert Kraft was just joking, saying that he wanted to return the ring with diamonds donated to Putin in 2005. This was reported by a representative of the football club NewEnglandPatriots, called the statement of the entrepreneur and owner of the team anecdotal story, which he likes to recount.



«funny story", which broke out on the eve of the meeting of Putin and US President Barack Obama and jeopardize further negotiations took place the day before.



The owner of the American football team New England Patriots Robert Kraft said that in 2005 the president of Russia, "expropriated" from his championship ring for winning the Super Bowl NFL. Allegedly, during his visit to St. Petersburg before the American president boasted that ring, and Putin took the ring encrusted with diamonds, tried it in his pocket and did not return. Kraft claims that history does not give publicity it has convinced the administration of George W. Bush, who explained it is the interests of the Russian-American relations.

The Russian side had to defend at the highest level. President's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, has categorically denied this information. During Putin's visit to London Peskov he said that "standing 20 centimeters from Kraft Putin and saw and heard him (American) gave the president the ring».

According to him, the whole story, "something like a difficult imaginable." However, as a consolation Kraft, he assured that the Russian president is ready to buy a new American ring. Now the ring, valued at $ 25 million, as well as other official gifts kept in the library of the Kremlin.

"If this gentleman feels really such excruciating pain from the loss that occurred, it seems, in 2005, the president is ready to send him to some other ring, which can be bought for their money," - he quoted Peskov NTV.