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Gnome poster removed before Medvedev visit?
Theater posters proclaiming “We await you, merry gnome” were taken down from a Russian town shortly before a visit by the country’s diminutive President Dmitry Medvedev, a local Web site has reported.

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The advertisements were for a children’s theater show, but were removed from a street that the president’s convoy was due to use on his visit to Omsk on Feb. 12, the nr2.ru Web site reports, citing local sources. Russian media say Medvedev is 5 feet, 4 inches tall. The poster depicted a child fairy but was one of a number of sudden renovation projects that took place ahead of the Medvedev’s visit, it reported, quoting bloggers and journalists. The authorities recommended that fresh snow should be sprinkled over older dirty snow as part of the facelift, it said.

21 February 2010, Sunday

REUTERS  MOSCOW
   

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