Moscow has clarified that placing Vladimir Putin’s portrait in state buildings is not mandatory, after police were called when a councilor tried to replace the President’s photo with a portrait of legendary poet Alexander Pushkin.
On Wednesday, at a meeting of Saint Petersburg’s City Council, local politician Nikita Yuferev, a councilor from the liberal opposition party Yabloko, removed a portrait of Putin from the wall. Yuferev had previously substituted the photo with a picture of the legendary poet, but it had been taken down, and the president returned. In anger, the politician ripped the Russian leader’s image into pieces.
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