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One day after 12 journalism students at Moscow State University released a racy calendar in honor of Vladmir Putin's 58th birthday, six colleagues are publishing their own version but with references to the many murders and curbs on freedom under Putin.
Some 50,000 copies of the laudatory first calendar have been printed, and are for sale for $8.50 in Moscow branches of French supermarket chain Auchan.
The opposition calendar is only available online.
NEW!!! A blog from Russia( but in English) discusses the controversy with MORE pro-Putin calendar PIX:
https://themoscowdiaries.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/happy-birthday-mr-president/
FOR AP version of this story, SEE:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haRtf83zpsCeBx7gCpEq5QSjtGrgD9IN0BH81?docId=D9IN0BH81
