New York Rangers forward and leading point scorer this season Artemi Panarin has been the target of a Russian state news agency campaign alleging he assaulted a young woman in 2011. The problem? There is not only no evidence of this ever occurring and no prior reports to anyone at the time, BUT Panarin also only weeks before now came out in support on Russian opposition leader Alexei Novalny. 

Novalny, who was imprisoned last week and sentenced to 2.5 years slave labour has had significant Russian support the last 2 years even after he was poisoned with a Russian produced (and government agency controlled) nerve agent last summer.

Now, The Russian powers have taken to attacking a hockey player, so as to keep him from being invited to play on the national Olympic team next year. This has Vladmir Putin's very small and very dirty hands all over it.

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