Peskov said he considers the allegations against MP Slutsky to be “something of a fashion statement.”
After refusing for weeks to comment on the sexual harassment allegations against Russia's State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has finally shared his thoughts, comparing Slutsky’s victims to the dozens of actresses who say Harvey Weinstein harassed them.
Peskov said these women remind him of “prostitutes,” according to Meduza.
“This has less to do with the Ethics Committee than the police,” Peskov told an audience at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics on Thursday. He then repeated the suspicions many Russian political figures have raised, asking Slutksy’s accusers, “If he groped you, if he harassed you, why did you remain silent? Why didn’t you go to the police? Why did so much time pass, and then you went to the Ethics Committee?”
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