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 The speaker of Russia's State Duma has condemned as offensive recent behavior by eccentric ultranationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky. A spokeswoman for Sergei Naryshkin, Yevgenia Chugunova, told reporters on April 18 that the Duma speaker wanted to apologize to journalists for Zhirinovsky's actions.

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