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Putin Says He Doesn’t Seek to Restore Russian Empire
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February 22, 2022
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1:55Now PlayingRussian President Vladimir Putin sought to reassure neighboring leaders he isn’t plotting to restore the Russian empire, hours after his late-night speech describing Ukraine as the artificial creation of Bolshevik revolutionaries on Moscow’s former imperial land.
“We see and foresaw, one might say, speculation on this topic -- on the topic that Russia is going to restore the empire within the imperial borders,” Putin said during talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. “This is absolutely not true.”
While Putin insists Russia respects other ex-Soviet republics, and has formed the Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the Kremlin recognized two breakaway regions of Georgia as independent after a 2008 war with its neighbor and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. It also maintains peacekeeping troops in a breakaway pro-Russian region of Moldova.
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