“We see speculation on this topic, on the topic that Russia is going to restore the empire, within the same imperial borders.
This is absolutely not true, ”RIA Novosti quotes Putin.
According to him, after the collapse of the USSR, Russia has recognized all the new geopolitical realities and is actively working to strengthen cooperation with all independent countries that have emerged in the post-Soviet space.
At the end of January, Latvian President Egils Levits opined that Russia wanted to restore the Soviet empire.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that it is hardly possible to seriously talk about the revival or restoration of the USSR, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said.