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He had already been to Putin’s court a year ago, when he was invited as an observer for the Duma elections. This time, however, Giuseppe Luca Genovese41, a Sicilian from Gela, was part of a smaller expedition – there were 13 Italians – and decidedly more dangerous: invited by the self-proclaimed Italian ambassador to the equally self-proclaimed independent Republic of Abkhazia, Vito Grittaniwas escorted by the Russians to some polling stations in Lugansk and Donetsk to attend the farce referendum