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Why on Earth did Putin say that? Match the Russian president's puzzling pronouncements to their proper context

“So what, now everyone needs to be released because they work in culture? This would seem strange.” This was Vladimir Putin’s response when asked this week about the house arrest of independent stage director Kirill Serebrennikov, and it’s far from the Russian president’s most puzzling reaction to a major news event. Don’t believe us? To prove it, we’ve collected another eight examples of baffling Putin remarks about headline news.

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