TIRANA – Many in foreign countries see that the world will be a worse and less safer place without a strong and prosperous Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
“There are people abroad who want to see Russia strong and prosperous and want this factor to be in place in global affairs,” he said in an interview with the Vesti Nedely weekly news roundup on the Rossiya-1 television channel.
“They think that the world would have been a worse and less safer place should Russia fail to revive and take its due place in the world,” he said. “There are a lot of such people.”
In the meantime, President Putin said that the US anti-racism protests were a sign of deep crises in the country, in his first comments on the situation.
“What has happened is a sign of some deep-seated internal crises,” Putin said during the interview when asked to comment on events in the US in the recent days.
He linked the unrest to the coronavirus pandemic, saying: “It shows there are problems. Things connected to the fight with the coronavirus have shone a spotlight on general problems.”
He contrasted the virus situation in the US and Russia, saying that while “we are exiting the coronavirus situation steadily with minimal losses, God willing, in the States it isn’t happening that way.”
Russia on Sunday confirmed 8,835 new virus cases, taking its total to 528,964, the third highest in the world, while the US has the largest number of cases by far at 2.07 million.(Compiled from wires)
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