ST. PETERSBURG, November 17. We should not be shy about taking the best everywhere, but at the same time not forgetting our roots, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking about borrowed words in the Russian language.
“We always, or often, unfortunately, slip into some kind of then extremes. We always lack pragmatism. We must not be ashamed to take the best that is anywhere — in the East, in the West, in the North, in the South. At the same time, we must never forget our own roots, rely on traditions and , acting pragmatically like this, to achieve the maximum result for ourselves,” Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum.