Interfax: Putin says Russia needs no chaos, no new priests Gapons

(Interfax – SELIGER, Tver region, August 2, 2013) The attempts to plunge Russia into chaos will lead to the situation as in some Middle Eastern countries and Russia does not need new priests Gapons (Georgy Gapon was a Russian priest and a popular working class leader before the Russian Revolution of 1905), Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Seliger youth camp.

“Every person has the right for self-expression. Every person can and has the right to express his or hers viewpoint, his or hers stance, including critical, regarding anything in the country. It is important that this is correct, that this is within the existing law and does not violate rights and interests of other citizens,” Putin said when asked about large-scale protest rallies held in Moscow.

“If we do not realize this, if we spiral into chaos, this very chaos is what we get – same as in some countries of the Middle East, let’s say. Who needs this? No one needs this,” the Russian president said.

“Our country should know its history and I hope we will not have such activists as priest Gapon – who brought people to the demonstration, exposed them to gunfire and disappeared – in our history again,” Putin said.