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June 8, 2009 11:43 AM

Putin Erupts In Struggling Russian Town

“It is not like Leningrad under siege of course, but people have already started eating grass,” Svetlana Antropova, a trade union leader in the town of Pikalyovo woefully complained to a Russian newspaper. "They make nettle soup and dandelion salads. What other choice is there?”

The solution was promptly offered by Russia’s Prime Minister. Vladimir Putin arrived on an emergency visit in this company town and blamed the town’s woes on local officials and delinquent private owners of the Pikalyovo industrial enterprises.

“Why did you start running around like cockroaches only on the eve of my arrival here? Why wasn’t there anyone capable of making the right decisions well before that?" Premier Putin asked, sternly eyeing a group of businessmen and officials.

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