Putin Melts Arctic Forum Moderator: 'How Can You Even Talk About Human Rights?'

Putin just gave CNBC's Geoff Cutmore a thrashing at the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk

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Russia's President just gave Arctic Forum Q&A moderator Geoff Cutmore an earful.

The CNBC journalist asked Putin about "political interference", human rights and the recent protests in Moscow. 

Putin was not impressed:

We keep talking about human rights. All the time we talk about human rights. And you just mentioned those protests in Moscow and other cities in Russia.

But remember: [The West] imposed sanctions on people who had nothing to do with Crimea. They were not even involved. They were not aware of the government’s plans. They found out about this from the media. And then, they imposed sanctions on those people. What about human rights? They seized their accounts, they can no longer use their money to take care of their families.

So: What are you even talking about? How can you talk about human rights? So you want to have human rights in some cases, and then you don’t want human rights for other people.

It doesn’t make any sense. It’s not fair. Unfortunately we see this degradation of international law in practice. We have to fix that. Can we do that? Yes, we can. So let’s work on it together.