• Two Russian phone pranksters say they faked Putin's 'call' to pooft

    From crunked2010@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to Snowman on Mon Feb 19 10:52:15 2018
    On Thursday, September 17, 2015 at 12:59:35 PM UTC+10, Snowman wrote:
    MOSCOW -- A prominent Russian prank-calling duo confessed
    Wednesday that they had fooled singer Elton John into thinking
    he had a heartfelt discussion about LGBT rights with Russian
    President Vladimir Putin.

    "Yes, it was us," Vladimir Krasnov, who goes by the nickname
    Vovan, told the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. He said
    an 11-minute recording of the conversation would be played
    Wednesday on a Russian late-night comedy show.

    The telephone conversation produced a warm note on Instagram
    from John, who unexpectedly posted a portrait of Putin earlier
    this week and wrote: “Thank-you to President Vladimir Putin for
    reaching out and speaking via telephone with me today. I look
    forward to meeting with you face-to-face to discuss LGBT
    equality in Russia.” He added the hashtag #sharethelove.

    For just a moment, it seemed that John's star power could break
    through the acrimonious debate over Russian laws against "gay
    propaganda" that were adopted to international condemnation in
    2013. John told the BBC last week that he would "love to sit
    down" with Putin and try to change his mind about the laws.

    That moment was short lived. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov soon
    denied that the conversation ever took place, while John’s
    manager insisted that it had.

    Enter Vovan and Lexus (real name Alexey Stolyarov), who admitted
    Wednesday that they impersonated Putin and his press secretary
    and reached John by phone in the early afternoon in London.

    "Elton John was very much waiting for his call, so he
    immediately believed in the reality of the conversation with the
    people that we said we were," Krasnov said. "He said: "Thank
    you, you've made my day. This day and conversation were the most
    remarkable and beautiful in my life!"

    Krasnov's remarks to the newspaper were brief, and it was not
    immediately clear why they chose to target John. While their
    list of victims has included garden-variety Russian celebrities,
    they have focused on political enemies of the Kremlin, including
    former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, former
    heavyweight boxer and now Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian
    oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, and Russian journalist and socialite
    Ksenia Sobchak.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/16/two- russian-phone-pranksters-say-they-faked-putins-call-to-elton-
    john/

    Doesn't this go to show that we all know putin is a latex wearing faggot...I knew all along

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