Ringing Mr. Putin

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Call it The Case of the Super Bowl Ring, or Kraft vs. the Kremlin. Back in 2005, Russian president Vladimir Putin met New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and who knows exactly what happened there. Putin contends Kraft gave him his Super Bowl ring, and that's what Kraft said at the time, but now, Kraft swears he showed it to Putin and that Putin pocketed it. Confronted with this charge, Putin came up with a solution to what he facetiously referred to as a "complicated international problem," and this entertaining column in the New Yorker takes it from there: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2013/07/08/130708sh_shouts_frazier
   Here's the news coverage of the whole kerfuffle, in case you missed it (video): http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/vladimir-putin-super-bowl-ring-russian-leader-accused-19418335