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SAINT PETERSBURG — As Russian newspapers steer clear of mocking top officials, cartoonists have turned to the Internet to post cartoons satirising President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin."There is no political cartooning where there is no political battle, and where most publications depend on the authorities," said Viktor Bogorad, one of the few Russian cartoonists to regularly lampoon Putin and Medvedev. Read the story here.