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The direct line Barcelona-Moscow, the interference of the Russian secret services in Catalan politics, the attempt to Vladimir Putin to favor the independence movement as part of a strategy, already seen elsewhere, to destabilize Western governments: it seemed a closed topic, at least set aside, after the Audiencia Nacional of Madrid – the national court dealing with terrorist crimes and financial – had closed the investigation opened by the police on the very suspicious presence in Barcelona, just in the hours before the referendum
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