Related Clues:

• Putin's putoff?
• Kremlin veto
• No, in Siberia
• Russian's refusal
• Russian refusal
• Denial from Dmitri
• Security Council vote
• Reply put in by Putin?
• Denial from Putin
• Boris' refusal
• Negative, somewhere
• Thumbs down, in the Kremlin
• Putin's put-down?
• Duma demurral
• No, to Natasha