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Putin defends charges of hacking and suppressing dissent by claiming U.S. does same thing

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin denied ordering a hit on political rival Alexei Navalny, but in an exclusive interview with NBC News he did not guarantee that the jailed Kremlin critic, who survived being poisoned with a nerve agent, would get out of prison alive. “Look, such decisions in this country are not made by the president,” Putin said. That was one of several striking moments in Putin’s first interview in three years with a U.S. news organization, days ahead of his meeting… Source link

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