Russia: Bloggers Outraged by Putin’s Interview · Global Voices
Alexey Sidorenko

Recent interview [RUS] of Vladimir Putin to Kommersant newspaper outraged many bloggers. They accuse Putin of a lie [RUS], ignorance [RUS], deliberate substitution [RUS] of the terms “police state” and a “state governed by a rule of law.” Other bloggers condemn [RUS] his attitude towards protesters: “You went out [on a street – GV] with no right to do that and get yourself beaten in your head by a police baton.”