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Vladimir Putin might have “liked” the topless feminist protester who confronted him with an obscene slogan daubed on her back, but she is less than impressed with him.

Alexandra Shevchenko, 24, who stripped in front of the Russian president as he toured a trade fair in Hanover alongside Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, told The Daily Telegraph that he was “really stupid.”

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“Putin is a bastard. If you’re a normal person you have to be against him,” Shevchenko said. “The most important [criticism] for us is human rights, the rights of women, this situation with Pussy Riot. Of course we don’t want to say this is all he’s done – he has committed a lot of other crimes.

“…It was really in this Russian, post-USSR style. The president of a European country would never say something like – I like her, in such a sexual way. He does it because he’s a stupid man.”

Putin quipped that he “liked it” when he met the topless activists at an industrial fair. “You should be grateful to the girls, they are helping you make the fair more popular.”