MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Friday sneered at words by U.S. Senator John McCain that Putin is one of the "dictators" who "may be a little bit more nervous" after the death of Libya's toppled autocratic leader Muammar Gaddafi.
"We consider it below our dignity to react to these words in any way. Unfortunately, there's less and less common sense in his statements," Dmitry Peskov told Interfax. Apparently, "the senator is very tired."
McCain had said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday: "I think dictators all over the world, including Bashar al-Assad, maybe even Mr. Putin, maybe some Chinese, maybe all of them, may be a little bit more nervous."
"It's the spring, not just the Arab spring," McCain said.
He said the Libyan insurgency might not have succeeded with NATO's military support.