Russia demands apology after Fox News host calls Putin a ’killer’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The Kremlin has reacted angrily after a Fox News host called Russian President Vladimir Putin a &&num;8220&semi;killer&&num;8221&semi; during an interview with US President Donald Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the weekend interview&comma; Bill O’Reilly called the Russian leader a &&num;8220&semi;killer&&num;8221&semi;&comma; and Mr Trump replied that the US has killers too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on Mr Trump’s reply&comma; but lashed out at Fox News&comma; calling Mr O’Reilly’s remarks &&num;8220&semi;unacceptable and offensive&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We would like to receive an apology from the president from this respected organisation&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Peskov told reporters&comma; referring to Fox News&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A British judge concluded last year that two Russians&comma; acting at the behest of Moscow’s security services&comma; poisoned ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko at a London hotel in 2006&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Litvinenko died after drinking tea spiked with a fatal dose of radioactive polonium-210&period; The Kremlin angrily dismissed the inquiry as a &&num;8220&semi;quasi-investigation&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Putin’s critics in Russia and abroad also held him politically responsible for the 2006 killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the 2015 slaying of leading Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov&period; The critics said the atmosphere of intolerance to dissent under his watch contributed to the two killings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2014&comma; a court in Moscow convicted the gunman and three other Chechens involved in Ms Politkovskaya’s killing along with a former Moscow policeman who was their accomplice&period; Investigators have failed to track down the mastermind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Five suspects&comma; all of them Chechens&comma; went on trial in the autumn for their alleged roles in Mr Nemtsov’s murder&period; The suspected triggerman served as an officer in the security forces of the Moscow-backed Chechen regional leader&comma; Ramzan Kadyrov&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has praised Mr Putin and signalled that US-Russia relations could be in for a makeover under his leadership&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5ce317030">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5ce317030'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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