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Putin’s motorcade stopped in Novosibirsk for a ‘spontaneous’ crowd of children. They had been waiting more than two hours — by a gas station with no gas.

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Putin stopped his motorcade during a visit to Novosibirsk and got out to greet a crowd of local residents who had been waiting for him along the road. Eyewitness video shows the motorcade halted near an empty gas station where the price board had been switched off.

First report: Putin arrives in West Siberia’s Novosibirsk on working visit — tass.com, 1d