Russian President Vladimir Putin's New Year's address. The most important thing: 🟦 The future will depend greatly on us. We rely on our own strengths and those of those around us; 🟦 Everyone has their own personal, special, and unique plans and hopes for the coming year. But these are inseparable from the fate of our Motherland. Indeed, we are together—the Russian people; 🟦 The work, successes, and accomplishments of each of us write new chapters in Russia's thousand-year history; 🟦 The stre

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25K views · 296 reactions | "Putin has weaponized and exploited Russian History." The Russia/Ukraine conflict can be traced back a thousand years, says Rodric Braithwaite, former British Ambassador to Moscow, who read out his diary from his time in Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union. | Times Radio | Facebook

Russia's Foreign Minister says Moscow “undoubtedly recognises Ukraines, independence - but blames 2014's “bloody coup" for today's divide. "It is not about territories for us," Lavrov said. "It is about the people who have been living on those lands for centuries, more than 300 years. They were building cities, including Odessa, founded by Catherine the Great - history which the Zelenskyy government is trying to erase, but he cannot undermine this." #RussiaUkraine #Lavrov #Zelensky | Russia Unof