View of the Moscow Kremlin. Archive photoSt. Petersburg, April 27The West wanted to transfer the problems of the past into the present life, wanted to drive Russia into a bearish corner, but did not achieve the goal, they took up massive preparations for an economic war, said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Council of Legislators at the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. He noted that in the early 90s, in the 2000s, Western states encouraged international terrorists and bandits in the North Caucasus. «They speculated on the problems of our past, on really problematic issues, on the injustices of the past against entire peoples, including the peoples of the Caucasus, but they did this not to make us better, not at all, but they did it in order to transfer the problems of the past into our present life, in order to stimulate separatist sentiments in our country, to dismember and destroy it. And ultimately drive us into the so-called bearish corner,» Putin said. I want to do something about Russia.» They did not achieve their goal, but they did not resign themselves to the fact that they could not do it. We did not reconcile ourselves to the fact that, despite this onslaught, we managed to survive then. Therefore, later they took up the massive preparation of an economic war against Russia. Step by step, using all sorts of pretexts, and sometimes simply without any pretexts, they introduced more and more new sanctions restrictions,» Putin noted. a country like Russia is a danger to the West
