Vladimir Putin has criticized the lack of strong leadership on the situation of coronaviruses in the United States (File)
Moscow:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that American anti-racist protests were a sign of deep crises in the country, in his first comments on the situation.
“What happened is a sign of deep internal crises,” said Putin in a Rossiya 1 television interview, which asked to comment on events in the United States in recent days.
He linked the troubles to the coronavirus pandemic, saying, “It shows there are problems. Things related to the fight against the coronavirus have brought to light general problems.”
The Russian television channel has published an extract from the interview, which will be broadcast in full Sunday evening, billed as Putin’s first interview since the start of the pandemic.
He contrasted the situation of the virus in the United States and Russia, saying that “if we gradually get out of the coronavirus situation with minimal losses, God willing, in the United States, this does not happen from this way”.
Russia confirmed 8,835 new virus cases on Sunday, totaling 5,288,964, the third highest in the world, while the United States has by far the highest number of cases at 2.07 million. .
Putin criticized the lack of strong leadership on the virus situation in the United States, saying that “the president says we have to do this and that but the governor somewhere tells him where to go”.
“I think the problem is that the interests of groups, the interests of parties are greater than the interests of society as a whole and the interests of the people.”
In Russia, “I doubt anyone in government or the regions will say ‘we are not going to do what the government says, what the president is saying, we think is wrong,'” Putin said about of the anti-virus strategy.
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