{"id":129053,"date":"2021-06-16T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=129053"},"modified":"2021-06-16T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:38:33","slug":"what-are-you-so-afraid-of-journalist-presses-putin-on-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/what-are-you-so-afraid-of-journalist-presses-putin-on-political-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#39;What are you so afraid of?&#39;: Journalist presses Putin on political opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>ABC News reporter Rachel Scott on Wednesday confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin about his crackdown on political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The list of your political opponents who are dead, imprisoned, or jailed is long &#8230; and you have now prevented anyone who supports [Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny] to run for office,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;So my question is, Mr. President, what are you so afraid of?&#8221;<br \/>\nThe question from Scott came during Putin&#8217;s solo news conference following the Russian leader&#8217;s meeting with President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Putin responded by describing the organization founded by Navalny, whom he did not name, as &#8220;extremist&#8221; in nature and said it had called for &#8220;mass disorder&#8221; and breaking laws.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Putin then referenced Black Lives Matter protests and said there was &#8220;disorder&#8221; and &#8220;destruction&#8221; in the US after the death of George Floyd, whom he also did not name. Putin said that Russia felt &#8220;sympathy&#8221; for the US and doesn&#8217;t want such demonstrations to happen within its borders.<\/p>\n<p>Scott rejected Putin&#8217;s dodge, bluntly telling the Russian leader, &#8220;You didn&#8217;t answer my question, sir.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;If all your political opponents are dead, in prison, poisoned \u2014 doesn&#8217;t that send a message that you don&#8217;t want a fair political fight?&#8221; Scott pressed.<br \/>\nPutin then invoked the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, suggesting a false equivalence between the insurrectionists arrested for rioting and the political opponents of Putin imprisoned in Russia.<br \/>\n&#8220;As for who is killing whom and throwing whom in jail, people came to the US Congress with political demands,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;They face prison sentences of up to 20, maybe even 25 years.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;They are being called &#8216;domestic terrorists.&#8217; They are being accused of a number of other crimes,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nA Russian court ruled last week that two organizations linked to Navalny are &#8220;extremist&#8221; groups, drawing condemnation from the US. The decision by the Russian court meant that members of the groups cannot run for office in upcoming elections.<br \/>\nNavalny, who was poisoned in 2020 and duped a Russian spy into revealing how he was targeted, has been in prison since earlier this year for allegedly violating the probation terms of a 2014 case in which he received a suspended sentence of three and a half years. His health has worsened and been a matter of concern in the international community.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Ahead of the summit, Biden warned Putin that the death of Navalny would &#8220;be another indication that Russia has little or no intention of abiding by basic fundamental human rights.&#8221;<br \/>\nAt his own press conference after the meeting with Putin, Biden reiterated that the consequences for Navalny&#8217;s death would be &#8220;devastating for Russia.&#8221;<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/16\/media\/abc-news-reporter-putin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)ABC News reporter Rachel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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