“You think our country’s so innocent?” The Kremlin then demanded that Fox News apologize for the host Bill O’Reilly’s characterization of Mr. Putin. Mr. Kara-Murza suffered similar symptoms in 2015 and later said he had been poisoned. The leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for example, posted a photograph of Mr. Kara-Murza in cross hairs. “There are higher risks than slander or imprisonment for those who oppose the regime,” Mr. Kara-Murza wrote. On the Fox program, Mr. Trump said he respected Mr. Putin and hoped Russia and the United States could join forces to defeat Islamic terrorism.

Source: New York Times February 07, 2017 00:42 UTC