Putin Denies Russia Wants to Revive Soviet Union

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br /> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denied that <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> has ambitions to re-integrate the former Soviet states.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“We are not talking about political integration, about the revival of the Soviet Union, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> is not interested in that today,” Putin said in an interview with three national TV channels seven weeks before parliamentary elections scheduled for December 4.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It is not interested in taking on excessive risks, taking excessive responsibility for the counties that for various reasons… remain close to us,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Putin also dismissed Western media reports concerning <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s “imperialist ambitions,” saying that Western experts who criticize Russia-CIS states integration policy should “mind their own business.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Tackle rising inflation, state debt or at least obesity. Mind your own business,” the premier added.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br /> </span></div></div>

Putin Denies Russia Wants to Revive Soviet Union

MOSCOW (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denied that  Russia  has ambitions to re-integrate the former Soviet states. ...

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