Forget the horrific war crimes — Russia is getting a bad rap in Ukraine because of the same misguided “cancel culture” that attacked JK Rowling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday.“They canceled Joanne Rowling, the children’s author — her books are published all over the world — because she didn’t satisfy the demands of gender rights,” Putin insisted in a televised rant, using the “Harry Potter” author’s legal name.Similarly, “They’re trying to cancel our country,” he said of critics — who have dared to oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has left an estimated thousands of Ukrainians and Russians dead.
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