Russia: Putin delivers a speech on power, investment and defence in the Duma

President Vladimir Putin of Russia

Recently the ballot for Russia’s lower house, delivered the expected result, a landslide for Putin’s United Russia.

President Putin outlined the aims of the Duma, such as boosting investment and defence strategies as well as the need to be strong:

“Every individual and every country have the same rights, the right to be powerful, but we don’t think that being a superpower gives us the right to tell people what to do and we don’t do that,” he said.

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