According to Russian media reports, the Russian President Vladimir Putin connected with U.S. dealing with the coronavirus crisis that has caused widespread civil unrest and protests in the country.
Putin talks about how the coronavirus pandemic had “shone a spotlight” on problems in the country. He feels that the reason for experiencing internal crisis were the protests because of the police being brutal.
On Sunday, According to Tass news agency, in one of his interviews, Putin said, “What has happened (in the U.S.) is the manifestation of some deep domestic crises,”
According to Johns Hopkins University, US is most affected by the virus with nearly 1,16,000 deaths and over 2 million cases were reported.
When crimes are committed, this affects elements of nationalism and extremism and nothing good comes out of it he says.
He expresses his sympathy for the struggle of African- Americans for their rights. He says, “If this fight for natural rights, legal rights, turns into mayhem and rioting, I see nothing good for the country, we always in the U.S.S.R. and in modern Russia had a lot of sympathy for the struggle of African-Americans for their natural rights.”
According to CNBC, last week, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia with a lack of human rights record was “concerned” about all the human right abuses around the world.
As of now, in the entire world, Russia is the third worst-hit country in terms of coronavirus cases and there were around 5,00,000 cases last week. Luckily the death rate is only 7000 there.
On Sunday, Putin spoke about the situation of virus in the U.S. and Russia stating that with God’s grace Russia is able to recover from the losses due to the virus and says that the situation in States is different.
