Putin's last press conference as president

In yesterday's speech Putin once again demonstrated his ability to manipulate, Igor Taro writes, accusing Putin of using double standards: "[In his speech] Putin lumped the West together as a unified whole and sought to rebut European fears about the state of democracy in Russia by citing the sins of the Americans in Vietnam several decades ago. ... When it comes to Russia's arsenal of nuclear weapons, we are sufficiently aware of its strength to know that deploying a couple of defence missiles in Poland hardly constitutes a threat to Russian security. Putin dismisses a democratic election campaign as populism. But what, then, is a two-hour monologue in front of the television cameras?"

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