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Russian Journalist Says Zhirinovsky Groped Him

by RFE/RL

   A journalist with Current Time TV has claimed that Russian nationalist
   leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky touched him inappropriately in 2006.

   Renat Davletgildeyev made the allegation on his Facebook page and spoke
   about it with Timur Olevsky on Current Time TV, a Russian-language TV
   and digital network led by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in
   partnership with VOA. Zhirinovsky's son, Duma deputy Igor Lebedev,
   called the accusations "nonsense."