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Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his interview with national television channels in Moscow (Reuters)

Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks during his interview with national television channels in Moscow (Reuters)

Men in Black agents K and J may be about to recruit a new Russian assistant: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Medvedev has spoken about top secret files on aliens that may have landed in Russia.

In footage recorded Friday after a television interview, the former president joked that each Russian leader gets two folders with information about extraterrestrials that visited our planet - and stayed here.

Unseen on camera footage, he is heard telling a Ren TV journalist he could not tell "how many of them are among us, because it may cause panic”. He said more details could be found in Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black films.

During his 2008-2012 presidency, Medvedev showed a sense of humour slightly more subtle than Putin's sometimes brutal jokes.

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9/12/2012 9:47:38 p.m.

tim wrote:

i like putin i like the new sovietunion they dont take craap from the us and putin stands up to this so called global new world order .

9/12/2012 6:06:44 p.m.

Forerunner wrote:

Mr Medvedev let his guard down after an interview with five Russian television stations when he failed to realise the cameras were still rolling. "I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist," he said in a jovial reply to a question about Russia's equivalent of Santa Claus. He went on to make an unflattering allusion to Putin's frequent lateness for meetings. "Colleagues, somebody should be extremely punctual, while somebody else is exhausting all the limits for being late," he said, smiling wryly on a day when his mentor was more than an hour late for an event in southern Russia. The comments touched off satire on the internet which is unlikely to help Mr Medvedev, whose star has waned since Mr Putin took over from him as president in May after a four-year interval. In the interview itself, Mr Medvedev underlined his allegiance to Mr Putin and appeared determined to show he is in step with his ally to dismiss rumours he is about to be fired. Mr Medvedev defended Kremlin-backed laws which critics say will be used to stifle dissent and which appear out of sync with the prime minister's relatively liberal image. But in the off-air comments, he was less guarded. When one of the five journalists who interviewed him complained about federal investigators arriving to search the home of a witness in an inquiry early in the morning, Mr Medvedev told the journalist not to worry before stepping out of shot.