President Putin
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As the case for Moscow's involvement in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal is weakened by new revelations, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he simply wants the diplomatic fallout over the incident to end.

"We are not waiting for anything," the Russian president said at a joint press conference with his Turkish and Iranian counterparts in Ankara, in response to a journalist who asked if Moscow was waiting for apologies from the UK for its accusations.

"All we are expecting is that common sense triumphs, and that international relations stop being harmed, as they have been in recent times. This doesn't just concern the attempted murder of Skripal, but other aspects of international relations."

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