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Munich, Valdai, Crimea: Three Landmark Speeches by the President of Russia
*MUNICH*
Russia is a country with a history that spans more than a thousand years and has practically always used the privillege to carry out an independent foreign policy. We are not giong to change this tradition today.
*VALDAI*
I want to stress that Eurasian integration will also be built on the principle of diversity. This is a union where everyone maintaina thier identity, thier distinctive character and their political independence. Together with pur partners, we will gradually implement this project, step by step. We expect that it will become our common input into maintaining diversity and stable global development.
*CRIMEA*
Now this is a matter for Russia's own political decision, and any deceision here can be based only on the people's will, because the people is the ultimate source of all authority.
Russia is a country with a history that spans more than a thousand years and has practically always used the privillege to carry out an independent foreign policy. We are not giong to change this tradition today.
*VALDAI*
I want to stress that Eurasian integration will also be built on the principle of diversity. This is a union where everyone maintaina thier identity, thier distinctive character and their political independence. Together with pur partners, we will gradually implement this project, step by step. We expect that it will become our common input into maintaining diversity and stable global development.
*CRIMEA*
Now this is a matter for Russia's own political decision, and any deceision here can be based only on the people's will, because the people is the ultimate source of all authority.
109 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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Vladimir Putin
23 books74 followersVladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia, a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 1999 until 2008. Putin is the second-longest current serving European president after Alexander Lukashenko.
Critics call him anti-democratic. Under Putin's leadership, Russia has shifted to authoritarianism. Experts do not consider Russia a democracy, citing the jailing and repression of political opponents, the intimidation and suppression of the free press and the lack of free and fair elections.
Critics call him anti-democratic. Under Putin's leadership, Russia has shifted to authoritarianism. Experts do not consider Russia a democracy, citing the jailing and repression of political opponents, the intimidation and suppression of the free press and the lack of free and fair elections.
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