Monday, February 01, 2021
The day
Kremlin calls protesters "hooligans"
The Kremlin defends the mass demonstration against the detention of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny over the weekend as necessary. "Of course the police have to take action against participants in these illegal rallies," says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. It got a "pretty large number" of Hooligans and provocateurs given.
They had shown "more or less aggressive behavior" towards the authorities. There could be no dialogue with such people. Here it is necessary to "full severity of the law" apply. According to human rights activists, more than 5,100 arrests were made in the nationwide demonstrations for the release of Nawalny on Sunday.
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