MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show July 15, 2017
Widely seen as a concession to his International Critics and his human rights critics trying to take some of the heat off of russia for hosting these olympics. People were very upset about their human rights record, their domestic oppression, their international aggression. Trying to take the heat off that. By just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released some of the Political Prisoners who he was holding in russian prisons. Among the most high profile prisoners was a feminist punk band called pussy riot. I am such a prude, i still find it embarrassing to say the name. That is t...
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