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President Putin's forthcoming address |
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Published by Gazeta (Russian)
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Friday, 14 April 2006 |
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"President Putin's forthcoming address to the Federal Assembly will lay the foundations for an old/new model" "There are rumors nowadays (with nobody to confirm or deny them) that the Kremlin's ideologues intend to revive the idea of a Third Rome. Numerous security services are believed to back the idea wholeheartedly. The rest of the population will be offered the following values (in descending order): Christian values (while taking care not to offend other faiths), justice, freedom, and equality. That's it. If Putin says something like that in his address, he will become the keeper and even perhaps the guarantor of a social contract with the old ideology of "Moscow is the Third Rome, and there shall never be a fourth."
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Russia