Russia?s Vladimir Putin is well known for his salty expressions that often seem better suited to the barrack room than to affairs of state. At a news conference on Tuesday, there was no sign that the president was planning to tone down his vocabulary, even though he will be playing host this summer to leaders of the world?s richest nations when the annual G8 summit comes to Russia. Here are the Putinisms he came out with at the conference, and some of the more exotic phrases he has produced in the past:

● When the news conference had been running for two and a half hours, Putin suggested a toilet break. ?I don?t suppose anyone put on a nappy (diaper) when they were dressing for this meeting so we should start winding this up,? he said.

● ?These people deserve one, very brief, response: ?To hell with you,?? Putin said when talking about critics of Russia who he said were still living in the Soviet past.

● ?Sorry to be crude but we did not pick these prices out of our nose,? Putin said when explaining why Russia raised the cost of the natural gas it exports to its neighbour, Ukraine.

● Promising tough action against insurgents opposed to Moscow?s rule in Chechnya, then-prime minister Putin said in 1999: ?If we catch them in the toilet, then we?ll wipe them out in the outhouse.?

● ?If you really want to become an Islamist radical and go as far as getting yourself circumcised, I...recommend you do it so that nothing grows back,? Putin told a journalist after an EU-Russia summit in Brussels in 2002.

● ?Why can?t we do things (like EU countries)? Because, pardon my language, we spend our time chewing snot and scoring political points,? Putin said in 2003.