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John McCain, the chairman of the United States Senate’s Armed Services Committee, who served as a senator from Arizona for more than three decades, died on Saturday at the age of 81.

While U.S. and world leaders mourned the death of the longtime critic of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Russian policymakers and media personalities openly criticized the late senator for his anti-Kremlin views.

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