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  "id": 14233504,
  "title": "Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/brexiters-cant-cope-with-the-fact-that-putin-was-cheering-them-on",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-13T15:21:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/13/brexit-vladimir-putin-russia-referendum-result-eu"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Russian meddling probably didn’t affect the referendum result – but the Kremlin’s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn’t feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea on the European Union . According to the Vote Leave frontman, Vladimir…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}