Party Congress: Putin: “Don’t give up sovereignty for sausage”

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Party congress
Putin: “Don’t give up sovereignty for sausage”

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech at the party congress in Moscow. photo

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Start of his election campaign for the presidency: Putin’s re-election is considered a given. Now the Kremlin leader is reaffirming Russia’s sovereignty at the party congress in Moscow.

Kremlin chief president Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s sovereignty at a congress of his United Russia party. “Russia cannot, like some other countries, give up its sovereignty for a sausage and become someone’s satellite,” he said on Sunday, according to the state agency Tass. Among other things, he was alluding to neighboring Ukraine, which is moving closer to EU membership and is dependent on generous military help from the West in its defensive war against Russia.

But Russia will either continue to exist as a sovereign state, “or Russia will no longer exist,” said Putin. At the same time, he emphasized that “Western recipes for so-called flower revolutions” would not work in Russia, even if the West had already “unleashed real aggression.” With this aggression, which escalates from year to year, the West wants to collapse not only the Russian economy and society, but also the political state system. “They believed and believe that they can sow internal unrest in our country,” Putin said.

Putin’s speech at the party congress in Moscow is seen as the start of his election campaign for the presidency. After the Russian constitution has already been amended, Putin can expect to be re-elected in March 2024.

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