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Putin Refused to Make Political Will
Russian President Vladimir Putin has delivered today an annual state-of-the-nation address to the parliament. His tenure expires next spring, and next time, the address will be given by another state leader, the president announced in the end.
Regardless, the president said that evaluating his own activities starting from 2000 wouldn’t be appropriate and making a political will would be premature.
But one should always think about the future. “There is a strange old entertainment in Russia – looking for a national idea. It is similar to questing for life meaning, you can do it infinitely, so we won’t do it now,” the president said.
Putin urged bureaucrats and policymakers to shape a certain plan to improve people’s lives, making the people “real participators of common creative process.” Putin said the fragments of that plan could be found in his addresses delivered in time of the presidency.
”The politicians should use to the maximum effect the time given by fate to serve Russia,” the president concluded in his key note speech, which had been widely expected to give clues to his plans for the last year in office and probably beyond.
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