Putin says protesters welcome to 'get shaved' found in jail
Russian President Vladimir Putin mockingly suggested about Tuesday that participants in unsanctioned protests were welcome to visit prison and "get shaved".
In the most recent in some interviews with state news agency TASS, Putin said opposition supporters who be a part of unapproved rallies should be prepared to get jail time.
"If you have certainly not received (permission) and taken to the streets - you are invited to receive shaved," Putin said, in mention of the practice of prisoners having their heads shaved."Get some rest. Relax a little bit," Putin said.
"There are certain rules for everybody to stick to," Putin told Andrei Vandenko, who's doing a group of interviews with Putin to tag 20 years since he primary became president. "This can be a law. And it must be obeyed. In any other case, the country's stability will breakdown. Do we want to see vehicles torched inside our streets?"
Police cracked straight down last summer on some unsanctioned anti-federal government demonstrations, with hundreds arrested and many protesters sentenced to long jail terms.
Russia requires organisers of demonstrations to acquire prior acceptance from authorities and the opposition complains that authorization is often denied without cause.
Authorities imposed harsher penalties for organising unsanctioned demonstrations after large-scale protests found in 2011-2012 sparked by Putin's return to the Kremlin after four years as primary minister. Single-person pickets will be the only sort of protest that will not require prior acceptance from Russian authorities.
Putin hasn't shied from using colourful and even foul words during his twenty years in vitality. In 2012 he employed slang to make reference to two-time jail sentences against three participants of feminist punk band Pussy Riot and in 1999 famously vowed to "rub out (terrorists) in the outhouse".
Back in July this past year, Russian opposition head Alexei Navalny was first moved from jail to a good hospital after his medical professional raised suspicions of a good possible poisoning after he suffered face swelling and a good rash while found in custody.
In a blog post written in detention, Navalny said he might have been exposed to an unknown chemical agent while in custody. Navalny recalled how his face started to become swollen on Saturday and it worsened the very next day: "I acquired up each day, so when my cellmate found me, he said: You have to see a doctor now."
Related incidents have occurred previously, wherein critics have been found poisoned or lifeless, thus increasing suspicion among the overseas community. A pro-democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was poisoned on two occasions--in 2015 and 2017.
Alexander Litvinenko, a realtor for the British technique service died in 2006 after allegedly ingesting polonium-201 in a cafe with an ex-KGB call. The British government had then stated that he was most likely poisoned by the Russian federal government.
A good Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot lifeless in 2015 near Kremlin, raising suspicion towards the Putin authorities. Oligarch and former Putin's aide Boris Berezovsky was observed hanged outside his London mansion back in 2013.
An investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who exposed theatrocities of the Russian federal government during a battle was gunned down in 2006 in her Moscow apartment.
