Alexandra Shevchenko, who stripped to the waist in front of the Russian president as he toured a trade fair in Hanover alongside German chancellor Angela Merkel, told The Daily Telegraph that he was "really stupid".
Mr Putin claimed to have been entertained by the demonstration, telling a press conference afterwards: “As for the protest, I liked it.”
Speaking in Berlin today, Ms Shevchenko, 24, said: “Putin is a bastard. If you’re a normal person you have to be against him. The most important [criticism] for us is human rights, the rights of women, this situation with Pussy Riot. Of course we don’t want to say this is all he’s done – he has committed a lot of other crimes.
“I think his answer was really stupid. It was really in this Russian, post-USSR style. The president of a European country would never say something like – I like her, in such a sexual way. He does it because he’s a stupid man.”
