Topless protestor says Putin’s response confirms ‘he is stupid’

The Russian president’s reaction to being confronted by a topless protestor just confirms her belief that Vladimir Putin is stupid, she said yesterday.

On Monday, three members of the women’s rights group Femen, which has protested against Russia’s detention of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot around Europe, disrupted his visit to a trade fair in the German city of Hanover.

They stripped to the waist and shouted slogans calling Putin a “dictator” before being bundled away by security men.