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Source: Mediate
Ahead of a mid-June meeting in Geneva with Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden said on Sunday hell bring up the issue of human rights with the Russian president. Ill be meeting with President Putin in a couple of weeks in Geneva, Biden said during a speech marking Memorial Day, Making it clear that we will not we will not stand by and let him abuse those rights.
On Monday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded by saying Russia is prepared to discuss the matter. Of course, we will be ready to discuss everything, including problems that exist in the United States, said Lavrov.
Lavrov stated that the Kremlin is monitoring what he called the persecution of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He stated that Russia was interested in the protection of opposition rights in the U.S.
Russias most notable opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was jailed in January upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he had been recovering from a nerve agent attack he says was ordered by Putin. He was jailed for violating the terms of a 2014 agreement stemming from a fraud charge. As part of that agreement, Navalny is supposed to regularly check in with Russian authorities, but he failed to do so last year because he was in hospital recovering from the attack. A lawyer for Navalny noted he had been in a coma for part of that time.
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It seems like Russian is happy to support Moscow Mitch and Kremlin Cruz in their efforts to undermine U.S. Democracy and question the legitimacy of the 2020 election.