TORZHOK (Tver region), March 27 Russia will not cancel the achievements of world culture, as they do in European countries with Russian, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
«As for the culture of these (unfriendly — ed.) countries, we have never done anything like the leaders of those states are trying to do with Russian culture, we have never tried to abolish them. On the contrary, we believe that Russian culture is part of world culture … And therefore, in the context of world culture, we look at our own, without excluding anything from this context,” Putin said during a meeting with cultural workers of the Tver region.
He noted that Russians are proud that Russian culture is part of world culture.