'The policeman would have been rewarded for that too.'
In the video, published Tuesday morning, Dmitry Peskov can be heard telling students in Russia that jailed Moscow protesters have it better than their peers in the U.S. There, they would have been gunned down"without trial, without an investigation," he said.
Opposition activists have pointed out a number of statistical anomalies in last year's Russian Presidential Election, where a record turnout saw Putin win handily. Several videosPutin's spokesman emphatically defended Russian law enforcement in the video clip that surfaced on Tuesday. Police in Russia"might not entirely courteously put you in a bus, break your arms and take you away," said Peskov,"but in America and Canada, they'll shoot you to hell.
One of the men who was detained in a protest but later cleared by Russian investigators, Sergei Abanichev, 25, said he was held for throwing a paper cup at a police officerDaniil Konon, 22, was accused of paralyzing traffic and using violence against authorities in central Moscow, according to. Other complaints leveled against the protesters included throwing a trash can, lifting a police helmet visor, and throwing a plastic bottle, according toMore than 300 people have been killed by U.S.
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