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Putin accuses US of 'intolerance' for arresting MAGA mob at Capitol
The Russian president was asked about his jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an interview last night ahead of his meeting with Biden in Switzerland on Wednesday.
Vladimir Putin has accused the US of 'persecuting political opinions' for arresting the MAGA mob at the Capitol siege, ahead of his summit with Joe Biden on Wednesday.
The Russian president was asked about his jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an interview filmed in Moscow last week before his meeting with Biden in Switzerland.
And he replied by hitting back at the US, equating the arrest of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol with his treatment of Navalny.
He said: 'We have a saying: 'Don't be mad at the mirror if you are ugly,'" he said. "It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is, why don't you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us.'
'You are presenting it as dissent and intolerance toward dissent in Russia. We view it completely differently,' he told US broadcaster NBC News.
He then pointed at the January 6 MAGA raid on the Capitol, saying: 'Do you know that 450 individuals were arrested after entering the Congress? ... They came there with political demands.'
Putin also reiterated denials that the Kremlin was behind last year's poisoning of Navalny with a nerve agent that nearly killed him.
'We don't have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody,' Putin claimed.
'Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and who was shot and killed by a policeman?' Putin said, referring to Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a window that led to the House floor.
Putin also sharply dismissed allegations that Russia is carrying out cyberattacks against the United States as baseless.
'Where is the evidence? Where is proof? It´s becoming farcical,' Putin said. 'We have been accused of all kinds of things - election interference, cyberattacks and so on and so forth - and not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof, just unfounded accusations.'
In April, the United States announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats and new sanctions connected to the so-called SolarWinds cyberattack in which several U.S. government branches experienced data breaches. U.S. officials blamed the Russian foreign intelligence service.
In May, Microsoft officials said the foreign intelligence service appeared to be linked to an attack on a company providing services to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Putin also laughed off Joe Biden's claim he's a 'killer' - heaping praise on Donald Trump before branding his successor a career politician.
He was asked by the NBC interviewer Keir Simmons, 'Mr President, are you a killer?'
Putin avoided directly answering, instead replying: 'Over my tenure, I've gotten used to attacks from all kinds of angles and from all kinds of areas under all kinds of pretext and reasons and of different calibre and fierceness, and none of it surprises me.'
'So as far as harsh rhetoric I think this is an overall expression of US culture. Of course in Hollywood, there are some underlying deep things in Hollywood - macho, which can be treated as cinematic art. But that's part of US political culture, it's considered normal. By the way, not here, it is not considered normal here.'