President Putin tells the Financial Times that in his view the 'liberal idea has become obsolete,' and referred to Germany's decision to welcome more than one million refugees — many fleeing savage urban warfare in Syria — as a 'cardinal mistake.'
LONDON — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that the age of a liberal consensus on migration is now over, aligning himself with anti-immigrant, populist movements across the continent.that the"liberal idea has become obsolete," and referred to Germany's decision to welcome more than one million refugees — many fleeing savage urban warfare in Syria — as a"cardinal mistake.
“Every crime must have its punishment," he said."The liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population.” Sergei Skripal talking from a defendant's cage to his lawyer during a hearing in court in Moscow on Aug. 9, 2006.with the poisoning of a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in the city of Salisbury in March 2018. The two agents were identified by British officials as working for the GRU, Russia's military intelligence force, although they claimed they were merely tourists.
Like Litvinenko, Skripal had defected to the U.K. and Putin appeared to justify the use of force against traitors.
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