Russian leader wants Michelle Obama’s help on school lunches

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Outspoken Russian party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a regular critic of America, wants to talk school lunches and childhood nutrition with first lady Michelle Obama.

Zhirinovsky, a political gadfly who leads the nation’s Liberal Democratic Party, told a Moscow radio station on Sunday that he has sent an invitation to Obama for a meeting to talk shop. It seems that he believes she can help his party implement a campaign to fight childhood obesity.

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