At G20, Putin leads attack on western liberalism

OSAKA, Japan: Russian President Vladimir Putin has used a global summit founded on liberal ideas to attack them in a demonstration of Moscow's apparent confidence amid international discord.

On Saturday , he repeated that western liberal policies on sexuality and gender identity were being forced on people, often children, and that parents who opposed this were"often jailed." Russian opposition figures argue that many supporters of President Vladimir Putin's anti-Western policies own luxury homes in the west.

But Trump, asked if he agreed with Putin, said the Russian leader"sees what's going on", before adding that US cities San Francisco and Los Angeles are"sad" because they are run by an"extraordinary group of liberal people."A political veteran first elected president in 2000, Putin had initially adhered to liberal ideas, but his advisers from those days are some of his biggest critics now.

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