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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Kremlin spokesman brands Lindsey Graham a drunk after senator calls for Putin’s assassination

AP

The Kremlin had strong words for Senator Lindsey Graham after he encouraged Russians to assassinate their president, Vladimir Putin.

On Thursday, Mr Graham wrote a tweet asking if there was a "Brutus in Russia" - referring to one of the assassins of Julius Caesar - or for a "more successful Colonel Stauffenberg," recalling the German soldier who tried kill Adolf Hitler.

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