Putin says he won’t pursue fines or prosecute unvaccinated people in Russia.
“We need to relate to people with respect,” President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said of Covid-19 vaccinations at his annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said on Thursday that he had no plans to impose fines or criminally prosecute people hesitant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, even though Russia has one of the lowest vaccination levels in Europe.
About 56 percent of the country’s population is inoculated against the virus, and the government has not introduced vaccine mandates. Mr. Putin said at his year-end news conference that such mandates would be counterproductive.
Mr. Putin said Russians “are inventive people” and therefore “whenever you start to push, they find ways to circumvent that.”
“We need to relate to people with respect, despite their positions,” he said, “and to patiently explain” the need to inoculate.
so this is the brutal dictatorship and these evil Western regimes that treat us purebloods as tenth-class citizens represent Freedom and Democracy and Human Rights????
