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Killgore Trout9/16/2009 2:30:27 pm PDT

Soviets support the Tea Party?
Reports: Medvedev wants to meet US ‘dissidents’


Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he would like to meet with “dissidents” when he visits the U.S. next week.

Russian news agencies quote him as telling a group of visiting foreign experts that “I believe there are dissidents in the United States.”

ITAR-Tass quotes him as saying: “Let them tell me what problems the United States has. That won’t be bad, considering the Soviet experience.”

It wasn’t immediately clear if the comment Tuesday was a subtle dig at the U.S., which has frequently criticized Russia for backsliding on democracy.