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Putin Lectures Radio Station on ‘Freedom of Speech'

21:23 18/01/2012 NOVO-OGARYOVO (Moscow Region), January 18 (RIA Novosti)

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticized a liberal radio station for laboring on behalf of U.S. foreign policy interests and going overboard with the notion of freedom of speech.

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