MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed media reports that billions of dollars in Panama offshore accounts might be linked to him as a U.S.-backed "provocation", as he told ordinary Russians that the country's economic crisis will ease next year.









Source: [url=http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/JHkyTfjFxok/story01.htm]Putin blasts Panama Papers 'provocation,' soothes crisis-hit Russians[/url]


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