This Spring, Putin passed laws to criminalize protests of the war in Ukraine. It has been reported that from late February to early March, over 13,000 Russians protesting the war were arrested and imprisoned.
Putin Russia economy in better shape than US
The Russian leader says the U.S. and its allies are “slipping” on the world stage. And that the dollar and European currencies are decreasing in value with the high inflation rates in those countries.
“The whole system of international relations has seen irreversible, tectonic shifts,” Putin said.
Putin is adamant that Russia was “overcoming financial and technological aggression” from the West. And his nation was trending ‘upward’ while the EU and the Western world was trending “downward.”
“The level of industrial development Europe has attained — the quality of life, social and economic stability, all of that —has sort of been burned to fuel by the sanctions machine.
“Back in spring, many foreign corporations were racing to announce their pullout from Russia, thinking that it was our country that would stand to suffer the most. But as we can see [it’s] Europe itself shutting down production facilities and jobs,” he added.
