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Sep 8 / 3:25pm

Putin's Russian Question

by Kerkko Paananen

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Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, held a speech on the "Russian question" at the Global Policy Forum in Yaroslavl on 7 September 2011. His speech was clearly intended as a campaign speech ahead of the elections to the Russian State Duma in December 2011, Kommersant reported. Earlier reports said Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called Rogozin back from Brussels to help him in the election campaign.

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