When Marr got Putin one-on-one briefly, he again raised the gay issue. Putin insisted he had no personal problem with gay people: “If you want to know what I personally think about this, a person’s sexual orientation actually does not make any difference to me. I know a few of them, and I am on friendly terms with some of them.”
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jan/19/winter-olympics-2014-sochi-vladimir-putin-russia
