Medvedev: Russia should not be likened to Soviet Union
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that “trying to liken Russia to the Soviet Union is a big and serious mistake.”
Addressing participants of the Munich Conference in his residence outside Moscow, the head of state stressed that Moscow’s relations with Europe have always been one of the top priorities for the country’s foreign policy, yet, Russia and its people have changed dramatically over years.
“I remember myself 25 years ago,” he said, “I was a different man".
And a great number of people in Russia “have gone the same path.”
Medvedev then suggested that the West should overcome “the difficulties in its perceptions of the processes that are happening in Russia.”