Photos from the official website of the President of Russia
Last week Vladimir Putin in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has once again expressed strongly condemn current relations between Russia and the West. Already at that time the president said that our country is not to blame for the complications with the European Union: “This is not our choice, we have it imposed by our partners, we do not enter any restrictions on trade, economic activity – is entered against us, and we have We had to take retaliatory safeguard measures ».
According to Putin, everything that makes the Russian authorities in recent years – is “a response to the threats that appear to us.” In no uncertain terms, he pointed to those in charge of anti-Russian processes, and also named the reasons why this is happening. According to him, the Americans “do not really want to rapprochement between Russia and Europe.” Although the head of state stressed that this is not a statement, but only a hypothesis, but it was repeated them several times during the interview. By the way, the president clearly the traditional prosecution forwarded to him by the Russian non-system opposition to the account of the United States: “They need an external threat, certainly need an external enemy in order to provide leadership».
The conversation between Putin and Italian journalists, with their hand-built, among other things, in a very respectful tone, can be considered quite valuable in many ways, because in it he probably for the first time last year called the cost to our country of some, according to its logic, making anti-Russian collective West.
For example, he said that the transition of the Baltic States into the energy system of the European Union has led to the fact that Russia has to build in its western regions of extra generating capacity. Price solve the problem, he said, – 2-2.5 billion euros. The same threat to Russia comes from the idea of an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Like, if it happens, we will have to pay another 10 billion euros to replace retiring electrical equipment, together with Ukraine. If Putin is, of course, every time I ask a rhetorical question: “Why, if we believe that the right to build a common economic space from Vladivostok to Lisbon?»
Answering a completely toothless question of why Russia so difficult to account for the opposition, Putin said, saying that all is easy, on the contrary – the party has become more liberalized legislation, the main thing now that people went to this opposition is only good and capable to solve problems facing the country.
The very same non-systemic opposition, rushing to the polls this year, with an eye to the Duma campaign of 2016, is mainly preoccupied with their own problems. For example, last week it became known that in the RPR-Parnassus going to get rid of the prefix of the first part of its name, which, they say, only confuse voters. Former Republican leader Vladimir Ryzhkov immediately responded negatively to this initiative, recalling that no Republican Party of Russia (RPR) and no Parnassus would not be. And now it turns out Ryzhkov is confident that the sole co-chairman Mikhail Kasyanov makes this politstrukturu your project.
Meanwhile, last week officially kicked off this same campaign, during which an election more than two dozen governors and more than a dozen legislative assemblies of subjects of the Russian Federation. According to “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” from the federal center to the regions have been instructed to ensure competitiveness, transparency and legitimacy of the elections. One of the criteria of quality should be part of the candidates of the parliamentary parties, which Moscow strongly advised local authorities on trifling occasions to fight for the governor’s seat does not shoot. It turned out that the Communists, the Liberal Democrats and the Socialist-Revolutionaries, apparently, really intend to nominate their candidates in almost all regions where voting will take place.
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