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Putin thwarted attempt to kill journalist Solovyev

– Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, has kidnapped a terrorist group that was planning to assassinate a prominent Russian TV reporter. Tass reports it. “This morning the activities of a terrorist group that planned the assassination of a prominent Russian journalist were stopped,” Putin said at a meeting of the board of directors of the Attorney General’s office. “Of course, they will deny it now, but the facts and evidence are incontrovertible.” According to Interfax reports, this is the journalist Vladimir Soloviev, whose killing was planned by neo-Nazi groups – according to the Tass – on the orders of the Ukrainian secret services.

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