Go to the media bankMOSCOW, Oct 3 In 2014, Russia maintained a space for cooperation with the West , and this year the parties have switched to total enmity — such conclusions can be drawn if we analyze the «Crimean» speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014 and his «Donbass» speech in 2022, Aleksey Tokarev, a leading researcher at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO, told RIA Novosti .Transcripts of both speeches can be found on the President's official website. The Crimean speech was longer: 4,646 words versus 3,828 in the 2022 speech.September 30, 08:00Special military operation in UkraineRussia is getting bigger»One of the characteristic differences between the speech of 2022 and 2014 in terms of the president's rhetoric is the almost complete disappearance of Ukraine and its derivatives. In March 2014, Vladimir Putin words with the basis «Ukrainian- «he said 67 times, using them throughout the entire document (only the text was saturated with morphemes «rossi-» as densely). The 2022 speech contains only six «Ukrainian-«, of which the word «Ukrainians» is used once,» Tokarev said. He drew attention to the fact that in 2014 Putin «directly, across borders and ruling heads» addressed three peoples — American, German and Ukrainian. He speaks with the Americans about the value of freedom proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, reminds the Germans about the unification of Germany, hoping that they will understand the integration of divided Russians.More than 12% of the time of that speech, the President of the Russian Federation speaks with the citizens of Ukraine.Moreover, very warmly, using the most personal, spared the wording “our soul hurts for what is happening in Ukraine,” and the country itself is called one of the leading partners, the expert noted. Yanukovych with the support of the European mediators Steinmeier, Sikorsky and Fournier, but neither Minsk-1 nor the 16-hour Minsk-2 talks have yet been inscribed in the history of diplomacy. Under these conditions, confrontation with the West has never been so acute on the agenda. Only eight times in 2014, Vladimir Putin used the morpheme «west-,» the expert noted.October 2, 08:00 «Putin burns bridges»: the president stepped on the sore spot of Western elites The speech of 2022, he continued, sums up the long and difficult cooperation with the West, which ended in a war with their proxies in Ukraine. Instead of eight «west-» is used 33 times. Instead of two «USA» in 2014, Putin says the name of this country seven times in this year's speech. In 2014, despite harsh criticism of the unipolar world, Putin still says «we are not against cooperation with NATO, but on an equal footing.» put things in order. The state of Ukraine in 2022, from the point of view of semantics, almost does not exist,” Tokarev noted. authorities and their real masters in the West», and instead of a direct appeal to the Ukrainian people indirectly mentions their suffering in the form of «our brothers and sisters in Ukraine did not see … «. The president devotes 72% of his speech to the multipolar world, the end of Western dominance, aggressive US policy and anti-colonial rhetoric, Tokarev noted.September 25, 08:00Donbass returns to its homeland»Spoken by the same person on similar occasions, but in radically different circumstances, these two speeches are documents of the time that allow us to record tectonic changes in world politics. In 2014, Russia retains the space for cooperation with the West, total enmity in 2022. In 2014, President Putin is trying to sincerely explain to Ukrainians why Russia decided to return Crimea and offers a partnership future within the framework of good neighborliness. In 2022, there is no sympathy for Ukraine, since it has completely lost its subjectivity, «he believes. In addition, the legal justification and appeal to similar historical incidents has sharply decreased. «Russia no longer cares what former partners think, precisely because they are former,» the expert noted. If the speech of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946 in Fulton can be called «a 2007 — «the speech of a strong national leader in a peaceful situation», but now the appeal from the Kremlin took place in the midst of hostilities on behalf of one of the world leaders, the expert concluded. .jpg» />October 1, 08:00Special military operation in UkraineWho opposes us — the enemy is named
