Tough new jail sentences should be introduced for those found guilty of insulting Russia’s president, one of the country’s most influential MPs has argued, citing public outrage over a worsening war of words with the White House.
In a television interview aired on Sunday, State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky, from the right-wing LDPR party, which is frequently supportive of the Kremlin, said that Vladimir Putin has increasingly been the subject of undiplomatic criticisms. He pointed to remarks made earlier this month by US President Joe Biden, who was asked whether he thought his Russian counterpart was “a killer.”“Mmm hmm, I do,” Biden replied.
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