Putin Enters Blogosphere to Counter Outrage Over Wildfires
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who once said he’d never written an e-mail, replied to an expletive-laced blog that criticized the government’s handling of wildfires raging across central Russia.
Putin penned his answer after a Moscow radio station forwarded him a blog that railed against the decline of rural fire protection and self-serving bureaucrats. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, confirmed the authenticity of the response posted on the website of broadcaster Ekho Moskvy.