Mr Johnson responded to his own mention by saying people were "making a fuss about nothing".
Dmitry Peskov, his press secretary, denied that the president's activities had been restricted and grumpily suggested that the media was making a fuss about nothing.
Mr Johnson played the comments down as "people making a fuss about nothing" and described the future leader as "a babe unborn".
"I'd been made to feel I was making a fuss about nothing and now I was facing my worst nightmare.
All of which explains why policymakers are hoping that the bears are wrong and that the markets are making a fuss about nothing.
So part of me leaves hospital with that nice, yes, I'm genuinely ill sensation, and the other half is left with that less comfortable, er, making a fuss about nothing guilt trip.
Mourinho, arch-contrarian that he is, might just sling the Armenian straight into the starting XI against Burnley simply to show that everyone was making a fuss about nothing.
"But the response is: 'Come on ladies, you're making a fuss about nothing, why couldn't you just stand up for yourselves?' I think we're getting to the point where this media response is becoming more of an issue, and more damaging, than the original thing itself".
But the day the research came out, I was repeatedly asked to go on radio or television shows to "debate" whether women were making a fuss about nothing, or whether the harassment and assault the report described was just "office banter".
"Frankly it really is people making a fuss about nothing," he said.
What if she was making a fuss about nothing?
