Putin: the World is at a historical crossroads
The large-scale system security seriously weakened, announced the President of Russia at the 11th conference of the International discussion club "Valdai". According to him, there is no guarantee that it can protect the world from shocks.

The large-scale system security seriously weakened, announced the President of Russia at the 11th conference of the International discussion club "Valdai". According to him, there is no guarantee that it can protect the world from shocks.
"Around the world have accumulated a large number of contradictions. And let's honestly ask themselves: do we have a reliable safety net?" - raised the issue of Russian favorite, and provided his own answer: "sadly, warranties, convinced that the present system of large-scale and regional security
able to protect us from fluctuations - no. This system is seriously weakened, fragmented and deformed".
The President is sure that the world order had to spend "a wise reconstruction": "Sure, this mechanism of "checks and balances"that the previous decade's difficult, sometimes painfully stood by the international community, it was impossible to break, nothing is created in return."
According to him, "otherwise, actually, there would be no other instruments - not counting brute force". "We had to spend a reasonable reconstruction, to adapt to the new realities of international relations, - said Putin. -The United States, who declared themselves the winners in the "cold war", confidently thought that this reconstruction of international relations) simply makes no sense. Instead of establishing a new balance of forces, which is considered a sufficient condition of order and stability, on the contrary, steps were taken that led to a sudden worsening imbalance".
According to the head of the Russian state, in international law and politics came during the nihilism, when "white" became known as "black". Started a period of discrepancies and omissions in world politics. Under pressure from legal nihilism step-by-step passed their own positions international law," he said. - Objectivity and justice was sacrificed to political necessity. Legal regulations were substituted by a free explanation and biased estimates. With all this complete control over the global media was allowed in the desire to "white" to give"black"and "black", "white", - said the President.
Putin said that the concept of national sovereignty for many States is a relative thing. "Actually, it was proposed formula is stronger than loyalty to a single centre of influence in the world, the greater the legitimacy of one or another of the ruling regime, " he said. In terms of the domination of one state and its supporters, or else to declare satellites, search for "global solutions" was often transformed into a desire to impose as a multipurpose own recipes. The ambitions of this group has increased so much that produced in the Parliament, the situation began to be presented as the opinion of the world community".