Ukraine is not the last in a series of countries whose domestic instability has led to conflict, affecting the global balance of power, said the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin.

" Risk factors become not only inter-state conflicts, but also the internal instability of individual countries, the most when the story is about the countries located at the junction of the geopolitical interests of major countries or on the boundary of the cultural, historical, economic, civilizational continents. Ukraine, which must have said, let's talk more, one of the examples of such conflicts that have an impact on the global balance of power. And I think it (the conflict) not extreme, " said Putin, speaking before the participants of the XI meeting of the international discussion club " Valdai ".

Key statements by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during his speech at the meeting of the Valdai club -

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