Russian President Vladimir Putin. Archival photoMOSCOW, Apr 27Nobody needs such a large-scale country as Russia, it is a danger to the West, but they themselves are a danger to the whole world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. they have historically carried out and are pursuing a course to contain Russia, they have historically carried out and are carrying out, as it was back in ancient times, you know it well, why did they do it?Yes, because such an independent, large, huge country, even according to their ideas, is not needed, they believe that it poses a danger to them simply by the fact of its existence,» Putin said at a meeting of the Council of Legislators in St. Petersburg. «Although this is far from the case, they themselves pose a danger to the whole world. the Soviet people — to drive them, remember, yes — whoever is able to work, to force him to work, subjecting him to slave labor, slave conditions, and who is not needed — beyond the Urals, to the north, to extinction «- n the President of the Russian Federation recalled. «The enemies of our country forced the creation of a new geopolitical weapon. Actually, it is not essentially new, but, of course, they gave it new strength, a new impetus. They relied on Russophobia and neo-Nazis. From year to year, they brazenly, unceremoniously turned our neighboring country Ukraine into anti-Russia,» Putin said. Ukraine
