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    MattyWollyJordan Sargent
    4/14/16 12:17pm

    Interesting the Ruskies would use the Panama accounts to prank the Ukrainian president given how they pooh-poohed the Putin connection.

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      2016MattyWolly
      4/14/16 12:42pm

      Nearly all Ukrainians speak Russian... Also is pretty common language across ex-URSS.

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      MattyWolly2016
      4/14/16 1:56pm

      Ukrainians presumably would be aware their president speaks Ukranian.

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    2016Jordan Sargent
    4/14/16 12:37pm

    It’s a prank... Russian loyalists have little to do with stupid sense of humor. (Not that it’s mutually exclusive).

    Any radio station does stuff like this all the time, just not to Times.

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      Miss Gradenko2016
      4/14/16 1:12pm

      So right. I was on holiday recently with Mister Gradenko and we stayed with an old friend of his.

      This guy listens to an AM radio station in [an undisclosed county], NY, and regularly calls in pranks. Elaborate ones, local crank-ish calls that put guests on the spot.

      So often that another guy they both worked with who is now a host asked him to make sure he never associates himself with his show, lest it upset the social order.

      For the lulz, yo.

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      DingoDongo2016
      4/14/16 1:26pm

      It’s a prank... Russian loyalists have little to do with stupid sense of humor.

      What about in 2008 when “pro-Kremlin Young Russia activists” piloted a fucking dongcopter into a Kasparov speech at an Other Russia meeting?

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    LordBurleighJordan Sargent
    4/14/16 12:15pm

    But have you ever tasted borscht, Jordan?

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      HellephantJordan Sargent
      4/14/16 12:12pm

      “Our suspicions were aroused when he asked if we had ten-pound balls.”

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        Sluicer's ghostHellephant
        4/14/16 12:13pm

        Ten pound balls! Who wouldn't be aroused.

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        Declan HackettHellephant
        4/14/16 12:13pm
        Gawker has never missed up

        Our suspicions were aroused when Jordan Sargent wrote the article…

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      Low Information BoaterJordan Sargent
      4/14/16 12:32pm

      They figured it out just after the caller had convinced them to bash out all the windows in the building.

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        fundamentalsJordan Sargent
        4/14/16 1:18pm

        Further, Mr. Poroshenko speaks fluent English and regularly conducts interviews with foreign journalists in that language.

        shouldn’t this have been the first, second and third clue?

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          Sid and FinancyJordan Sargent
          4/14/16 12:25pm

          You win this round, Ashton. You win this round.

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            PredatrixJordan Sargent
            4/14/16 12:47pm

            They determined it was a Russian prank after the translator insisted, “In Ukraine, offshore accounts hide YOU.”

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              ThenSAJordan Sargent
              4/14/16 12:31pm

              Sounds like a pretty lazy and poorly executed hoax.

              Maybe they should not have been Russian.

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                rubydog1Jordan Sargent
                4/14/16 12:41pm

                Jordan giving some other news outlet kudos for not falling for a hoax has given me a case of terminal irony poisoning.

                Outed any gay men lately, Jordie?

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