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The New Times publishes a response to a request for an interview with Vladimir Putin
Readers regularly ask us the question: “You often write critical articles about Putin. Why don't you find out what he thinks about it? " We answer: we consider it necessary to publish different points of view, including those officials whose activities, it seems to us, contradicts the interests of society. And we regularly send letters with a request for an interview. So, the head of the RF IC, Alexander Bastrykin, after the story of the Novaya Gazeta journalist, on June 14, publicly promised to give an interview to the magazine - the result of zero. Today we publish the answer of Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation.