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TV Channel Pulls Putin Caricature
The 2×2 television channel, which broadcasts primarily animated series, was taking no chances after it had a scare involving its license last fall. In its latest season of the popular South Park cartoon, the channel has edited out the character representing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Novy Region Information Agency reports.
Putin was shown in a scene receiving a phone call from one of the young characters in the cartoon, asking to help him blast a whale to the moon. In the sketch, Putin thinks that he is receiving a prank call from US President George W. Bush. The clip came from the “Free Willzyx” episode first broadcast in 2005, when Putin was the President of Russia.
2×2, which started broadcasting in 2007, faced the threat of license revocation ...