Vladimir Putin took part in his tenth question-and-answer session in Moscow on December 15, 2011. This year, Putin appeared in the program as the sitting Prime Minister and as a presidential candidate. Putin was then asked to comment the statements from US Senator John McCain, who said that the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should make other "dictators" like Putin nervous. Putin said that those threats were aimed against Russia on the whole rather than against him in person. "Some people want to push Russia aside so that they wouldn't be bothered. They don't want Russia to bother their reign on the globe," he said. Having recollected the terrifying footage and photos of Gaddafi's death, Putin reminded of the circumstances of his murder. According to Putin, the Libyan leader had been killed by US drones and foreign special forces. "Is this democracy?" he wondered. Putin also recollected several episodes of McCain's biography, who waged war in Vietnam. Apparently, "he got used to such methods," he said. "It is not a secret that McCain took part in the US-Vietnamese war...he's got enough blood of peaceful civilians on his hands. He probably...can not live without these disgusting scenes of Gaddafi's murder when all the world's channels broadcast how he was killed." [...] "It's well known that Mr McCain was captured in Vietnam and was locked not just in prison but in a hole, where he was imprisoned for several years. Any person would have bats in the belfry after ...