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Russian woman identifies assailant from election brochure
May 26, 2011, 14:42 GMT
Moscow - Russian police tracked down a man suspected of violently assaulting a woman after the victim received an election brochure from him asking for her vote, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
The man allegedly spat in the woman's face and struck her three times during a minor argument in December in the northern city of Vorokuta. He was identified five months later in the run-up to the city council election, when the woman saw his picture in the handout.
Witnesses to the attack confirmed the man - subsequently elected to the Vorokuta city council - was the woman's attacker, police said.
Prosecutors intend to charge the politician with assault.
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