That’s an eye-opener for Putin! Russian president confronted by topless demonstrator in Germany
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 9, 2013 23:15
Russian President Vladimir Putin looked bemused today as he was confronted by a group of topless female protestors inGermany.
The activists, who strip off to highlight a range of issues, including women’s rights, press freedom and domestic violence were dragged kicking and screaming from the premises by security guards
As one women tried to push through to Putin she was blocked by his aides – her back was painted with an obscene word directed against the Russian president.
The members of the women’s rights group Femen, which has staged protests againstRussia’s detention of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, appeared as he visited a trade fair inHanoverwith German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
They stripped off to the waist and shouted slogans calling the Russian leader a ‘dictator’ before being covered up and bundled away by security men.
But a smiling Putin shrugged off the protest and said ‘As for the action, I liked it.’
‘You should be grateful to the girls, they are helping you make the fair more popular.’
But it seems that the Kremlin were not so impressed by the demonstration as Putin.
‘This is ordinary hooliganism and unfortunately it happens all over the world, in any city. One needs to punish (them),’ said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
Merkel told Putin in a speech at the fair on Sunday thatRussianeeded ‘an active civil society’ including freedom for non-governmental organisations, after a wave of controversial state inspections of foreign-funded NGOs inRussia.
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