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Alex Ovechkin goes to Vladimir Putin town hall meeting to lobby for struggling Dynamo franchise

Russia President Vladimir Putin made national headlines on Thursday when he offered political asylum to James Comey.

“[Comey] said he’d written down his conversation with President [Trump] and handed it to the media through a friend of his,” Putin said, according to NPR and a translation by Radio Free Europe. “This does sound and look odd: the director of a security service making records of his talks with the supreme commander and handing it over to the media through a friend of his.”

Putin was speaking at an annual Direct Line appearance on state TV, in which he spends hours taking questions from a studio audience and from civilians across Russia.

While Putin made his remarks, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin was spotted sitting in the crowd.

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