Putin Wept - NYTimes.com March 4, 2012, 10:42 pm Perhaps the only unexpected aspect of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin's victory in Sunday's Russian presidential election was the tear in his eye as he stepped to the microphone to address supporters outside the Kremlin walls in Moscow. Video tagged #putinwept by one incredulous blogger appeared to show Mr. Putin tearing up as he was introduced by the outgoing president, Dmitri Medvedev. While Mr. Putin said later that the tears were caused by the bitterly cold wind in Moscow, not emotion, Agence France-Presse reported that his spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, was more equivocal. "Well, at least that was his explanation for what happened," Mr. Peskov told state television. Whatever the truth of the matter, Mr. Putin's opponents, who plan to protest his election on Monday night in Moscow, used the tears to poke fun at him. "Today, our leader really had a reason to cry," the blogger Aleksei Navalny told a private television channel. "He looked at everything around him and said: "God, what have I done to this place?"" The anonymous opposition bloggers behind the parody Twitter feed KermlinRussia - which mocks the Kremlin's official account - used the opportunity to evoke Bob Marley.