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Woman Accuses Café of Mocking Putin With a Dobby Statue, Threatens to Call Police

A woman at a Russian café said a Dobby sculpture looked like Putin—and threatened to call the police over the supposed insult.

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A bizarre incident in Saratov, Russia, is spreading online and has even been picked up by foreign television. An elderly woman mistook a benign little sculpture of Dobby’s head from Harry Potter for her beloved Putin while taking a stroll. 

In a slightly longer version of the video than is typically posted, we see the vigilant babushka, rocking a long coat and a troll-green hat, inside the café with the apparently provocative object. She summons a blonde representative of the establishment outside, where Dobby is visible in the window.

The apparent barista, draped in a gray leopard cardigan, obliges so that she can........

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