Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with the American television channel NBC stated that he does not scare his opposition.
“Who told you that the opposition scares us, or my opposition scares me? Who did you say that? You know, it’s even funny,” said the Russian leader, answering the question of a journalist: “Why is the opposition, Mr. President ? “, Interfax transmits.
On the question concerning the recognition by the Russian court outside the law of organizations, which are associated with the oppositionist Alexey Navalny, and the inclusion of them into the status of foreign agents, and is not the persecution of dissent, Putin said: “This is this as dissent and intolerance to dissent in Russia. We look at it quite differently. “
At the same time, Putin said that the Law on Foreign Agents, who mentioned the journalist, is not a Russian invention: “This is in the 30s, the law on foreign agents was adopted in the United States, and it is much more hard than us, aimed at preventing interference in the internal political life of the United States. “