“We know that the West is developing scenarios to stir up new conflicts in the CIS space. But we already have enough (conflicts),” he said, during a meeting with officials. security services of member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which brings together former Soviet republics.
“Just look at what is happening right now between Russia and Ukraine, what is happening on the borders of some CIS countries. All of these, of course, are results of the collapse of the Soviet Union,” he continued.
The Russian president also claimed that a “more just world order” was being formed through “a difficult process”.
“A unipolar hegemony is inexorably collapsing, it is an objective reality that the West categorically refuses to accept. And we see all that flows from it,” he said.
“By clinging to the past and trying to carry out a policy of diktat in all areas – from international relations to the economy, including culture and sport – this famous collective West is creating new problems and new crises. “, launched Mr. Putin once more.
On September 16, during an Asian regional summit, Vladimir Putin had already posed as a counterweight to the Western order, welcoming the “growing role of the new centers of power”.
In the past, Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the USSR “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century.