MOSCOW, RUSSIA - JUNE 24: President of Russia and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Vladimir Putin makes a speech in Red Square during a Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. The 75th-anniversary marks the end of the Great Patriotic War when the Nazi's capitulated to the then Soviet Union. (Photo by Sergey Guneev - Host Photo Agency via Getty Images )
Ahead of his meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the U.S. goes after its political dissidents citing the January 6 Capitol riots. Russia has come under heavy criticism for its treatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in August 2020. Since he returned to Russia, he has been imprisoned by federal authorities.
“We don’t have this kind of habit of assassinating anybody,” he told NBC News. “We have a saying, ‘Don’t be mad at the mirror if you are ugly.’ It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is: ‘Why don’t you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us.'”
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