INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Five days since the deadliest attack on Russian soil since 2004, President Vladimir Putin has still not visited the site of the attack in
responsibility, Putin on Wednesday made a surprise visit to Torzhok, a small town in the Tver region, where a pre-assembled crowd of adoring
The crowd was shown bursting into applause as he emerged from the presidential limousine to approach them.Putin was shown signing an elderly
the Russian president turned to his tried-and-true damage control tactic of staging a spontaneous meeting with ordinary citizens far from
president in an unfavorable light," a government official told The Moscow Times, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not
resembled undercover security officers were visible in the crowd.Putin later visited an ethnographic museum and held a meeting where he was
presented with a gift and mused about "true patriotism."While Putin's motorcade arrived in Torzhok in the evening, preparations for his
TelegramAuthorities covered up run-down buildings in the town center with cloth and removed speed bumps from the roads, according to Perviy
museum, Putin himself suddenly told participants that his visit had allegedly been planned earlier, but that it had to be postponed because
events that could trigger public anger.This is one version of the Kremlin's positive spin strategy which The Moscow Times has previously
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