MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin sought to transform the burgeoning scandal over corruption in soccer's international governing body into an extension of the confrontation between Russia and the West on May 28, accusing the United States of global overreach while invoking the fates of Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder.
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A man reads a newspaper with a story on the FIFA scandal in a coffee shop on May 28, 2015 in Washington, DC.
