Including Russian Prime Minister Vladimir...

"Unfortunately we don"t know the criteria, on the grounds of which these conclusions were drawn. But they are absolutely wrong," Dmitry Peskov said.

The reaction came as a response to the RSF roster of freedom "predators" published on Monday that included forty famous politicians, religious and military figures from different countries. The Russian premier and the president of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, are the two Russian politicians ranked in this list.

"It"s hard to tell whether this mistake has come as a result of the deeply-ingrained stereotypes about everything related with Russia or is a consequence of the lack of information. Over the last ten years, Vladimir Putin has done much so that mass media became more economically independent and freer," Peskov said.

RSF said Putin, "the former KGB officer," has exerted so much control over all aspects of life in Russia that "the national TV stations now speak with a single

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