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Originally posted by THGRRI:
MOSCOW -- A Russian publishing house printed a series of books about President Vladimir Putin under the names of Western analysts and journalists without the authors' permission.

"Even by Moscow standards, this is a surreal story," The Guardian's Luke Harding told UPI Tuesday. Harding joins The Economist's Edward Lucas and Donald Jensen, a U.S. based Russia expert, whom all say they had no knowledge that the Russian-language books would be attributed to them. The books were produced by the Moscow publisher Algoritm in a series called Project Putin, as reported by The Moscow Times.

But, they did not write them.

"The first I learned of my 'book' was when a Russian friend found it in a store a couple of weeks ago and tweeted me a picture. I haven't seen a hard copy. The publisher has told Russian TV and radio he got hold of the Ukrainian edition of my book Mafia State, which came out in 2014, then translated it into Russian, and published a version of it without my consent! His excuse -- 'I couldn't get hold of him.' Ridiculous," exclaimed Harding.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/08/11/Russian-publisher-pr
ints-books-on-Putin-under-names-of-Western-authors/2601439302100/

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