With snippets all over Russian media as well as the 1:45 long video, the job fell to Dmitry Kiselev, the director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group. We get to read the translated transcript where all emphasis is mine: Dmitry Kiselyov:
“the vampire ball is ending”…. putin is like a character in a doestovsky novel and doestovsky makes such fascinating characters! putin walked out of one of his books and onto the world stage, to the shock of the rest of the world! no wonder that biden asked him not to do it in 2011…
That's my favourite interview with Putin in many years. It's both unexpected and refreshing to see a national (and world) leader being so detailed, humble, optimistic, wise and clearly humane.
For many centuries the notion that Russia is somehow alien to the West has echoed in the cathedral of European psyche; how ironic that only in Russia is the true spirit of Western civilization now seemingly to be found.
I wouldn't set too much store by any politician's pronouncements in the run-up to a re-election, whether a puerile, venal Biden and Trump scenario or an admirable grandee Putin scenario. Let's revisit these gransiose visions in a year or two for a more sober-minded reflection.
An interesting interview. Several points have been taken out by commentators I’ve seen. He moves from statistical numbers on the birth rate and policies for large family support that we’ve seen before all the way to the latest U.S. election rumors. I noticed that when he was asked about policies for external countries such as Africa, he always delivered his answers in the context of Russia first. It’s been a minute since we’ve had anything like that here. All in all an enjoyable read even though much of the information we’ve gotten before in other interviews.
most fascinating karl.. thank you!!
“the vampire ball is ending”…. putin is like a character in a doestovsky novel and doestovsky makes such fascinating characters! putin walked out of one of his books and onto the world stage, to the shock of the rest of the world! no wonder that biden asked him not to do it in 2011…
That's my favourite interview with Putin in many years. It's both unexpected and refreshing to see a national (and world) leader being so detailed, humble, optimistic, wise and clearly humane.
For many centuries the notion that Russia is somehow alien to the West has echoed in the cathedral of European psyche; how ironic that only in Russia is the true spirit of Western civilization now seemingly to be found.
Thank you for providing this.
I wouldn't set too much store by any politician's pronouncements in the run-up to a re-election, whether a puerile, venal Biden and Trump scenario or an admirable grandee Putin scenario. Let's revisit these gransiose visions in a year or two for a more sober-minded reflection.
An interesting interview. Several points have been taken out by commentators I’ve seen. He moves from statistical numbers on the birth rate and policies for large family support that we’ve seen before all the way to the latest U.S. election rumors. I noticed that when he was asked about policies for external countries such as Africa, he always delivered his answers in the context of Russia first. It’s been a minute since we’ve had anything like that here. All in all an enjoyable read even though much of the information we’ve gotten before in other interviews.