Vladimir Putin on non-systemic opposition members

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that non-systemic opposition members are not enemies of the state.

"This has nothing to do with reality," the hed of state told TASS in an interview for the project entitled "20 Questions with Vladimir Putin".

According to him, politicians, including opposition ones, should not just criticize the authorities, but have a clear vision of how to go about the business of addressing the problems the country is faced with.

"An average person wants to see not just somebody criticizing the authorities, but hear and understand what is being proposed by those who do the criticizing," Putin noted.

Putin remarked that Russians were far from being naive when it came to politics, adding that "the political awareness of Russia's ordinary citizens has grown over the past year."