A senior Kremlin official says that U.S. prosecutions for “comments made about” U.S. president Barack Obama have led to prison sentences for “several people” in recent months, and that this shows that Russia has “more democracy” than the United States. But Vyacheslav Volodin, a key architect of President Vladimir Putin’s political system, was comparing apples to oranges when he made the assertion while discussing Internet freedoms in Russia.
