Putin Not Happy About Merkel's Defense of Pussy Riot

Run before he throws you in the gulag as well!

Vladimir Putin reacted angrily to the German chancellor Angela Merkel's questioning of the two-year jail sentence for the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot on Friday, telling her that a member the group had once committed an anti-Semitic act.

"I don't know whether the two women should have been sent to a prison," Merkel said during public talks with the Russian president before the two retreated for closed-door talks. "I don't know whether the same would have happened to them in Germany.

"It would have generated a debate about whether that should go on in a church, no question. But should you really have to spend two years in a labour camp for it?"