Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite¹" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

俄罗斯总理弗拉基米尔·普京本周一谴责美国寅吃卯粮，是全球经济的“寄生虫”，并称美元的主导地位对金融市场构成威胁。

"They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy," Putin told the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi while touring its lakeside summer camp some five hours drive north of Moscow.

"They are living like parasites² off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar," Putin said at the open-air meeting with admiring young Russians in what looked like early campaigning before parliamentary and presidential polls.

US President Barack Obama earlier announced a last-ditch deal to cut about $2.4 trillion from the US deficit³ over a decade, avoid a crushing debt default and stave off the risk that the nation's AAA credit rating would be downgraded.

The deal initially⁴ soothed⁵（安慰，缓和） anxieties and led Russian stocks to jump to three-month highs, but jitters⁶（神经过敏，激动） remained over the possibility of a credit downgrade.

"Thank god," Putin said, "that they had enough common sense and responsibility to make a balanced decision."

But Putin, who has often criticized the United States' foreign exchange policy, noted⁷ that Russia holds a large amount of US bonds and treasuries⁸.

"If over there (in America) there is a systemic malfunction⁹, this will affect everyone," Putin told the young Russians.

"Countries like Russia and China hold a significant part of their reserves in American securities ... There should be other reserve currencies."

U.S.-Russian ties soured（发酵，变酸） during Putin's 2000-2008 presidency¹⁰ but have warmed significantly since his protégé（门徒） and successor President Dmitry Medvedev responded to Obama's stated desire for a "reset¹¹" in bilateral¹² relations.