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VLADIMIR Putin propagandist Margarita Simonyan has lashed out at the global outpouring of tributes for the Queen, saying her death was receiving too much attention.

The 42-year-old boss of the Kremlinbacked RT channel sent out the bizarre missive on her Telegram channel late on Thursday night.

‘Colleagues, let’s finish up with the amount of news about the Queen,’ Miss Simonyan wrote. ‘She died. Well, rest in peace. We all die.’ The self-styled journalist’s channel has been banned across most of the EU for peddling fake news and conspiracy theories.

The RIA news agency, another Kremlin mouthpiece, suggested that the future of the country was in doubt.

‘The death of the Queen calls into question the very existence of the United Kingdom,’ it claimed.

The Kremlin confirmed that Putin would not travel to Britain for the funeral.