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Russia honours pranksters who fooled Elton John and Prince Harry appeared on www.thetimes.com by Tom Parfitt.

Russian phone pranksters who duped Sir Elton John into thinking he was talking to President Putin and chatted to the Duke of Sussex for an hour while pretending to be Greta Thunberg have received a state award.

Media in Russia pictured Vladimir Kuznetsov, 37, and Alexei Stolyarov, 36 — known by their aliases Vovan and Lexus — holding glasses of champagne at a Kremlin ceremony. They have been awarded the Order of Friendship, a decoration given for “strengthening friendship and co-operation between peoples”.

The pair have spent years befuddling and pranking politicians and celebrities — many of them foreign opponents of Putin or from countries whose governments oppose his regime.

Elton John told the pranksters he was “extremely honoured” to be called by President Putin

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In 2015, they managed to place a call to John, 77, who had criticised Russia’s

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