http://twitter.com/#!/jeneps/status/378249194114658304

Yesterday on “The Lead,” Sen. McCain jokingly told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’d like to write an op-ed for Pravda in response to Vladimir Putin’s New York Times troll piece. Well, thanks to a little nudging by Foreign Policy’s John Hudson, Pravda’s English editor Dmitry Sudakov has tentatively agreed to publish an attack op-ed by McCain (or maybe not; see update below).

http://twitter.com/#!/SethAMandel/status/378595405782847488

Here’s what Sudakov said:

“If John McCain wants to write something for us, he is welcome,” Dmitry Sudakov, the English editor of Pravda tells The Cable. “Mr. McCain has been an active anti-Russian politician for many years already. We have been critical of his stance on Russia and international politics in our materials, but we would be only pleased to publish a story penned by such a prominent politician as John McCain.”

And here’s what others are saying:

http://twitter.com/#!/seanmccord/status/378610023649517568
http://twitter.com/#!/missADelgado/status/378610092607676416
http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/378612018980208640

Will readers even see it?

http://twitter.com/#!/betbell3/status/378601054054526976

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Update:

http://twitter.com/#!/iboudreau/status/378618594667802624
http://twitter.com/#!/UnseenPerfidy/status/378622748932571136
http://twitter.com/#!/iboudreau/status/378622825789399040

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/09/13/war-of-words-pravda-tentatively-agrees-to-give-sen-mccain-space-to-attack-putin/