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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin's Annual State-of-the-Nation Address at Moscow's Grand Kremlin Palace Thursday Dec 04,2014

 In a defiant speech, Russian president Vladimir Putin defended his country's action in Ukraine during his annual state-of-the-nation address at Moscow's Grand Kremlin Palace 
In a defiant speech, Russian president Vladimir Putin defended his country's action in Ukraine during his annual state-of-the-nation address at Moscow's Grand Kremlin Palace on Thursday Dec 04,2014

Vladimir Putin defiantly compared Western powers with Hitler as he defended his aggressive foreign policy.

In a belligerent and provocative state-of-the-nation address, the Russian president accused the West of ‘trying to build a new Iron Curtain’. 

Vladimir Putin claimed Russia was asserting its ‘sovereignty and national pride’ over its dealings with neighbouring Ukraine – and said his country’s survival depended on it. 
Claiming the West wanted to see a Yugoslav-style ‘collapse and dismemberment’ of Russia, he said: ‘This has not happened. We did not allow it.
‘Hitler also failed when, with his hateful ideas, he was going to destroy Russia, throw us back behind the Urals. Everyone should remember how it ended.’

Vladimir Putin used his address to justify Russia’s dealings with Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea – which he described as ‘our Temple Mount’, a reference to the holy site in Jerusalem sacred to both Jews and Muslims.

Vladimir Putin insisted that Russia was merely defending its own existence from foreign aggressors and warned: ‘No one will succeed in defeating Russia militarily.’
Vladimir Putin added: ‘If for a number of European countries national pride is a long-forgotten term and sovereignty is too much of a luxury, for Russia real state sovereignty is an absolutely indispensable condition of its existence.
‘I want to stress: either we will be sovereign or we will dissolve in the world. And, of course, other nations must understand this as well.’ Mr Putin then raised the spectre of a new Cold War, saying: ‘We will stand up for the diversity of the world.
‘We will deliver truth to people abroad... And we will do this even in those cases when governments of some countries are trying to build around Russia something next to a new Iron Curtain.’

Hundreds of cabinet ministers, politicians and community leaders gathered to listen to Putin as he outlined his plans for Russia's future
With his eyes closed, Russian prime minister Dmitri Medvedev appears to be having a nap during Putin's speech 
Hundreds of cabinet ministers, politicians and community leaders gathered to listen to Putin as he outlined his plans for Russia's future 
The speech was broadcast live across Russia
A woman irons clothes as Vladimir Putin speaks on a TV screen in Moscow, 4 December
The speech was broadcast live across Russia. Putin accused the west of 'pure cynicism' over the Ukraine crisis in apparent reference to sanctions against his country 
A man watches a broadcast of Putin's defiant speech. The Russian leader insisted his country would not change course despite the threat of diplomatic isolation  



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