"It is not often that such people, charged with a certain idea, appear in the human population," Putin said of Musk.

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of major government contractor SpaceX and key ally of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...