Too “beautiful” to understand? Putin’s response to a US journalist provoking outrage

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, hinted to an American journalist that she was too “beautiful” to understand his explanation of Russia’s confrontation with Europe over gas supplies.

The journalist of the American chain CNBC Hadley Gamble, who spoke to the President before a live audience at the Russia Energy Week in Moscow, he addressed recent allegations that Russia was withholding gas supplies to Europe in an effort to raise prices.

His questions seemed to irritate Putin, who at one point addressed the audience and said in Russian: “Beautiful woman, pretty, I’m telling you one thing. He instantly tells me otherwise as if he hadn’t heard what I said”The Hill reported.

The American journalist, who interviewed him in English but understands Russian, told Putin that she had “heard” what he said and wanted to know why Russia had taken its time to increase energy supplies.

“I listened. I just told you: ‘Gas is not supplied to Europe through pipelines.’ They are being deceived. We are increasing supplies to Europe … We are increasing, not decreasing supplies Putin said.

“Did I really say something so difficult to understand?” added.

its sexist joke -that generated outrage in the United States and also had an impact on social networks – it occurred when the Kremlin-owned media that covered the visit of Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland to Russia mocked her as a symbolic woman in government, lamenting the “advance of femininity” in the West.

In the program The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev , of the state channel Rossiya-1, the political scientist Sergey Mikheyev affirmed: “We are witnessing a great deterioration of political analysis and decision-making in the United States (…). There are many reasons for that, but personally I think that among other things, this clearly has to do with the rise and advance of femininity in the West”.

Western officials recently accused Putin of try to exploit rising gas prices in the United States and Europe. Russia supplies about half of the EU’s natural gas imports, the UK chain reported BBC.

Construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which will run from Russia to Germany, was completed last month, but is still awaiting authorization from Germany’s energy regulator to begin operations.

After the interview with Putin, Gamble published a photograph of the front page of the Russian newspaper Kommersant, which showed his extended leg while on stage with Putin.

“My best angle #feminism #Russia,” Gamble wrote in her caption.

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