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Russian state TV screens interview with new US ambassador.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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The new US ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has dismissed suggestions that the White House has sent him to Moscow to foment revolution.

Speaking in a lengthy recorded interview for the 30 January edition of Vladimir Pozner's interview show on state-controlled Channel One TV, McFaul, who took up his post on 14 January, also expressed surprise at the outcry that followed his meeting with representatives of the Russian opposition at the US embassy three days later. He stressed that "nothing could be further from the truth" than suggestions he was intent on destabilizing Russia.

Early in the interview, Pozner reminded McFaul of the title of one of his books - Russia's Unfinished Revolution: …

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