Femen activists, gay fllags and posters with Putin “in the female”: Hanover and Amsterdam prepared in advance for the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation. The New Times summarizes the visit of Vladimir Putin to Germany and Holland.
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| Several dozen Hanovers gathered opposite the congress center, in which Vladimir Putin, together with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, opened the Russian pavilion at the Gannover-2013 International Industrial Fair. "For free elections in Russia"; "Russia has only gas", "stop raids against NGOs" - it is written on posters | Representatives of the Syrian community in Germany protested against Russia's position regarding the Civil War in Syria, demanding to stop the supply of Russian weapons to Syria. However, later in the Netherlands, several dozen Syrians met Putin with a gratitude picket for the support of the Bashar Assad regime |

“Stop the dictator of Assad,” Syrian opposition in Hanovever demanded from Vladimir Putin to Vladimir Putin

Femen activists are preparing for the campaign in the congress center: Alexander Shevchenko (Ukrainian) - 24 years old, Clara McMurfers (Nemka) - 22 years old, Irina Khanova (Russian) - 33 years old, Oksana Shachko (Ukrainian) - 26 years old and Josephine Witt (Nemka) - 19 years old - 19 years old
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| During a visit to the Volkswagen exhibition center, Femen activist Alexander unexpectedly appeared before the delegation and demonstrated the policy as it relates to him. “As for the action, I liked it,” Vladimir Putin commented on the action at a press conference, held according to the results of a visit to Germany | Employees of the Federal Security Service caught girls who did not reach a few meters to the Russian president |

The activist of Alexander shouts that the Femen movement is represented - his participants have long been arranging protests directed against the Russian president

The girls were kept in the police for 5 hours. They face an article for "a public insult to the power of a representative of a foreign state", by which they can receive up to three years in prison. However, representatives of the Ganover police press service say that activists, "most likely" will get off with a small fine

Femen activist Oksana from Ukraine does not want to obey the German police who came to the aid of the FSO

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called the action "some kind of hooliganism", but added that he does not call for mandatory punishment for girls

In the afternoon of April 8, Amsterdam met Putin with rainbow flags. The Schiphol Airport administration replaced the usual Dutch flags with gay symbols. The symbolism of LGBT Menorities appeared on the city town hall
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The human rights movement of Amnesty International hung posters with inscriptions on the prohibition of performances by punk groups and propaganda homosexuality - "Do not scare Putin President. Zone free of human rights"
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| Up to 3,000 people gathered for a spontaneous gay parade in the center of Amsterdam to protest the laws on the fight against the propaganda of homosexuality adopted in the Russian Federation | Near the Museum of Shipping, in which the negotiations of Putin and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte were held with visual agitation against homophobic laws |
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| Gay activists wrote posters in several languages so that President Putin understand their claims. At a press conference, following a visit to the Netherlands, Vladimir Putin suggested introducing same-sex marriages in Chechnya: "No, you can imagine this?! You must understand in which country we live" | Not only homosexuals gathered for the action, but also transvestites. "From homophobic laws to the dictatorship - one step," the audience chanted |

The Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, meanwhile, wrote about the secret part of Putin’s visit to the Netherlands. According to the publication, Vladimir Putin was supposed to visit his daughter Maria, who supposedly lives in a Penthouse in the area of the pileshota with his boyfriend-Cello Yorrit Faassen. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov immediately denied these statements. Recall that according to Putin himself, both of his daughters live and work in Moscow.
Photos: Reuters, DPA, FEMEN.ORG, Philipp von Ditfurth/Demotix, Ad.NL, COC Amsterdam