Russia did not consider and does not consider himself an enemy of the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary session of the XIX meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club on the topic “World after hegemony: justice and security for all.”
According to Putin, Russia “has the right to choose its own path”: “Real democracy in the multipolar world primarily implies the possibility of any people, any society, any civilization to choose their own path, own socio-political system. If such a right is a right The United States, the European Union, is certainly the countries of Asia, the Islamic states, the Gulf of the Persian monarchy, and of course, in our country, in Russia, ”he said.