❗️🇷🇺 Key points of Vladimir Putin's speech at plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

▪️Russia capable of making huge contribution to new world order, but its readiness was misinterpreted as obedience

▪️Russia did not start war in Ukraine, its goal is to end it

▪️It was not Russia who threatened Donbass with bombings, intimidated Crimea, for 10 years, used tanks and killed people

▪️Ukrainian crisis is not a territorial conflict, Russia has no interest in terms of conquering any territories

▪️The US and their allies lay course for hegemony

▪️Attempts to establish monopoly doomed to failure, the world is too diverse

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⚡️ Attempts to drive India away from Russia are pointless, India is an independent state: Vladimir Putin

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🇷🇺📹 "We did not stage the coup d'état and we did not intimidate with Nazi-inspired ethnic cleansing," Putin said

The ever-increasing military and political pressure requires a response, Vladimir Putin said, recalling the 2014 coup in Ukraine

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🇷🇺💪 Putin: Russian civilization cannot be reduced to one common denominator, it cannot be divided

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🇷🇺 Putin: The West has forgotten what reasonable self-restraint and compromise are, they want to sell their interests at any cost – let's see what happens

Tomorrow the winds in the West may change, there may be internal political shifts after elections, and the exact opposite will be pushed through, Vladimir Putin added.

The Western elites are behaving irresponsibly and are guided by short-term interests: they have forgotten fear and consider themselves sinless, Putin added

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💬 “Who are you to tell us that?"

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says it’s time for the West to get rid of colonial thinking

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🇷🇺 Putin: Russia stands for equality of all countries; no one should be dependent on others

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💬 ‘The West always needs an enemy’

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says attempts to throw the world into a state of constant struggle is a vicious legacy of the 20th century and a product of the Western political culture

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❗️🇷🇺 More key points of Vladimir Putin's speech at plenary session of Valdai Discussion Club

▪️Russia had a budget surplus in the third quarter – about 660bln rubles (about $600 million)

▪️Main European economies are stagnating, with exception of Italy and Spain, where there is growth due to rising property prices

▪️Spending on defense and security in Russia has roughly doubled - now about 6% of GDP

▪️Putin denies a statement that Russia betrayed Armenia, says West should not talk about betrayal

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🇷🇺🇦🇿🇦🇲 Putin: For 15 years Russia proposed Armenia to compromise and return five Nagorno-Karabakh territories to Azerbaijan and keep two, but Yerevan refused

Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh after 2020 had rights only to monitor compliance with the ceasefire, Putin said.

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💬 “They would rather print the money”

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin says that the US government, in the wake of a government shutdown, has two choices: cut their aid to Ukraine or cut social spending.

💰 The Russian president added that the US already printed a lot of money during the COVID epidemic and will print more, increasing inflation and food prices.

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🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin outlines six principles that Russia adheres to and calls on other countries to observe as well

▪️Strive to live in an open, interconnected world without artificial barriers

▪️Preserve the world’s national and cultural diversity without imposing on people how to live their lives

▪️Maximum representativeness and collective decisions: those directly affected by an issue agree on what to do and how to do it

▪️Universal security and peace for all without looking at others as outcasts and savages

▪️Justice for all: attempts to limit development should be seen as an act of aggression

▪️Equality

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❗️Putin: Russia's response to a possible nuclear strike on its territory will result in absolutely unacceptable levels of damage for any potential aggressor, there will be no chance for the enemy to survive

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❗️Putin: Ukrainian forces have lost over 90,000 servicemen since the beginning of their ‘counteroffensive’

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💬 "In a retaliatory strike, so many hundreds of our missiles would appear that there would be no chance of survival for any enemy"

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin speaks about the possible use of Russia's nuclear weapons as outlined in the country's military doctrine. He underscored that he sees no need to make any alterations to the existing doctrine.

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🇨🇦 “If the Canadian parliamentary speaker does not know about Hitler, he is an idiot; if he knows about him and invited a Waffen-SS Nazi to the Parliament, he is a scoundrel,” Vladimir Putin said

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#CancelNaziCanada

🇷🇺Putin: European countries have lost part of their sovereignty and made decisions that are detrimental to them.

The result of Europe’s sanctions against Russia is the plummeting competitiveness of the European economy, Putin added.

Europe purchases energy from the US at a 30% premium after it divorced from Russia's supplies, the Russian president stated.

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💬 'For 15 years Russia has been proposing that Armenia compromise and return five Nagorno-Karabakh districts to Azerbaijan and keep two, but Yerevan refused'

🇷🇺🇦🇿🇦🇲 Comprehensive response by Vladimir Putin on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh

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