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Russia supports black community's struggle for equal rights: Putin

Xinhua | Updated: 2020-06-15 15:00
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference call with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia June 11, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

MOSCOW - Russia has always supported the black community's struggle for equal rights but is against violent demonstrations, President Vladimir Putin has said.

Russia now has, and the Soviet Union in the past had, always backed "the fight of African Americans" for their rights, Putin said in an interview with the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" TV program aired on Sunday.

If the struggle for natural rights, for legal rights, turns violent and brutal, then "I see nothing good for the country here. We have never supported that," he added.

The mass protests across the United States after the killing of African American George Floyd are "a manifestation of deep-seated internal crises," he pointed out.

Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after being pinned by the neck for nine minutes by a white police officer's knee while pleading "I can't breathe."

"Group and party interests are put above the interests of the whole society and the people," Putin said.

The coronavirus pandemic has also highlighted the internal problems in the United States, he added.

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