{"id":100548,"date":"2021-01-25T14:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T19:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=100548"},"modified":"2021-01-25T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T02:12:05","slug":"putin-claims-protests-illegal-but-russian-constitution-allows-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-claims-protests-illegal-but-russian-constitution-allows-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin claims protests \u2018illegal,\u2019 but Russian Constitution allows rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-claims-protests-illegal-but-russian-constitution-allows-rallies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=100548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1066836684-315x210.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2360667\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2360667\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2360667\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1066836684-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2360667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin gestured during a meeting with France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron (out of frame) in the sidelines of the G20 Leaders&#8217; Summit in Buenos Aires, on November 30, 2018. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>\nUPDATED 6:00 PM PT \u2013 Monday, January 25, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Vladimir Putin claimed the latest uptick in support of Alexei Navalny is illegal, despite the Russian Constitution allowing the right to free assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexei Navalny is the face of courage on the planet, as are the thousands of Russians who stand with him. Every champion of truth and freedom salutes them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MittRomney\/status\/1353417536918990851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We have repeatedly encountered situations when the situation went far beyond the law and shook our society and the state,&#8221; Putin stated. &#8220;Where not only people who were engaged in it suffered, but also those people who had nothing to do with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin also claimed he does not own the multi-billion assets found by Navalny in his latest investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This came as Putin&#8217;s approval rating has tanked below 30%, while hundreds of thousands of Russians are rallying in support of the opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is very good that people all over the country came out to the protest on January 23, I was pleasantly surprised by this, because there are rumors that only Muscovites have a different opinion, but it turns out that the whole country is thinking about all these political topics, and I am very glad about it,&#8221; Moscow resident Elizaveta Tikhanova said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disturbing scenes from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russia<\/a>. Tens of thousands of people joined rallies across Russia. More than 2,000 people were detained during nationwide protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/navalny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@navalny<\/a>. Many were brutally beaten. It&#039;s a huge show of defiance against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Putin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cs91BweaOv\">pic.twitter.com\/cs91BweaOv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HannaLiubakova\/status\/1353027879584587776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russian opposition plans to continue protests across the country in coming weeks, saying the society is sick and tired of the Kremlin&#8217;s corruption, economic mismanagement and political failures.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/amc-shares-rise-after-company-raises-over-900m-rules-out-immediate-bankruptcy-talks\/\">AMC Shares Rise After Company Raises Over $900M, Rules Out Immediate Bankruptcy Talks<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin gestured during a meeting with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181123,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1066836684-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Putin claims protests \u2018illegal,\u2019 but Russian Constitution allows rallies","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/GettyImages-1066836684-315x210.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Putin claims protests \u2018illegal,\u2019 but Russian Constitution allows rallies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}