
Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club, spoke about the phrase of the German politician Egon Bahr, who warned the USSR about the plans of the West and said that if the Soviet leadership did nothing, he would no longer come to Moscow.
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The Valdai International Discussion Club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines “Russia in Global Affairs” and Russia Profile. The name klubu is associated with the site of the first conference near Lake Valdai in Veliky Novgorod.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told participants at a meeting of the Valdai international discussion club about a phrase by German politician Egon Bahr that shocked him.
In his speech, Putin recalled the German politician Egon Bahr, who opposed the isolation of Russia and warned the USSR about similar plans of the West.
“The Soviet leadership listened, listened and did nothing, which prompted Bar to say a phrase that shocked me: “I didn’t think that at my age I would be forced to express such a point of view in Moscow, if the Soviet leadership does nothing, but simply weak-willedly watch what is happening, then I will not come to Moscow again, you will not see me again,” Putin said at the plenary session of the XXIII annual meeting of the international discussion club "Valdai".
The Valdai International Discussion Club is an association of leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of political science, economics, history and international relations. The club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines "Russia in Global Affairs" and Russia Profile. The club owes its name to the location of the first conference, which took place in Veliky Novgorod near Lake Valdai.

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