Putin: We Won't Let Anyone Achieve Military Dominance Over Russia

Russia will not allow any nation to dominate it in military terms, the Russian president said. Some nations are developing new kinds of weapons, which may tip the global strategic balance, but Russia knows how to counter them.

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Vladimir Putin Claims Russia Is Moral Compass of the World

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Russia asserts in his annual state of the nation address that it takes a morally superior world-view to the West and defended its Conservative[s] values

Russia has asserted that it takes a morally superior world-view to the West and is seeking to resist the tide of "non-traditional values"[.]

Mr Putin, the Russian president, used his state-of-the-nation address to defend his government's increasingly conservative values.

Speaking as a worldwide protest movement grows against the Kremlin's anti-gay stance, Mr Putin upbraided the West for treating "good and evil" equally.

In his 70-minute televised speech from an ornate Kremlin hall, Mr Putin pledged to defend traditional family values, which he said were the foundation of Russia's greatness and a bulwark against "so-called tolerance - genderless and infertile." Russia has one of the lowest birth rates of any developed nation. » | Damien McElroy | Thursday, December 12, 2013