Russian President Vladimir Putin says that “no blackmail or attempts from outside to hinder us will ever yield results.” While addressing the plenary session of the ruling United Russia party, Putin said, “Russia is developing; the economy is growing, and this is against the background unprecedented in the full sense of the word, in the literal sense of the word in world history, sanctions, gross interference and pressure from the ruling or some states, but no blackmail attempts from the outside to stop us, never”.
Shailesh Kumar, National Defence
New Delhi, 14 December 2024
The United Russia congress is set to alter the party’s program and charter, as well as rotate its High and General Councils. “Russia is confident in itself, it feels its rightness and its strength And therefore, all the tasks we have set for the short and long term will definitely be solved”, he added.
Putin hailed fellow partymen saying, “All parliamentary parties of the country consolidated everything that is aimed at protecting people in the Donbass and in Novorossiya to ensure firm guarantees of the security of the fatherland for decades to come.”
Despite Western efforts, Russia remains strongly active in international trade. Some nations in the EU continue buying Russian-sourced energy, openly defying Brussels’ calls to divest, while others do so through intermediaries, according to researchers monitoring supplies. For every one billion dollar sanction, European Nations are buying 7 billion dollar worth Russian oil and gas.
USA and its NATO allies have imposed a record breaking 22,000 sanctions on Russia since 2014, when a Western-backed coup in Kiev prompted Crimea to rejoin Russia and led to a conflict between Ukraine and the Donbass republics. The number of economic sanctions spiked after the launch of Russia’s special military operation (west calls it Russia’s Ukraine aggression) in February 2022.
Moscow has long slammed Western sanctions as illegal. It noted on more than one occasion that these have failed to achieve their ultimate goal of destabilizing the Russian economy and isolating Russia from the global financial system. Instead, they have backfired on the states that imposed them.
Watch Putin’s full speech at ruling Russia United Congress’s plenary session.
Moscow views the Ukraine conflict as a proxy war to contain Russia. It has for years voiced concerns about NATO’s unchecked expansion towards its border, while regarding the US-led bloc as an existential threat. Sweden and Finland were the latest members who joined NATO recently. Ukraine has yet not got NATO membership despite its repeated requests to to the west. US and NATO has been accusing Putin to have started Ukraine war to reset a new world order, which Moscow denied many a times.
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