“When people express their point of view, including during protests, I already talked about this, I believe that they have the right to do this,” the head of state said.
According to him, sometimes this leads to a positive result, because "it shakes the government, builds it in the right direction so that it more effectively solves the problems facing people."
“But we need to act in a positive way, guided not by our narrowly self-interested, group interests, but by the interests of the country and people,” Putin said.
Putin previously linked unauthorized actions in Moscow to the electoral cycle.