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“With full confidence I can say that our country today is absolutely protected from any attacks from outside”, – said the head of state.

an Interview with Vladimir Putin in September 2019 in Dagestan, according to the website vestige.

Russia would have waited for a very sad future if 20 years ago are unable to keep the country. Then the first priority was the integrity of the state, he said.

Putin cited Niccolo Machiavelli “divide and then conquer”. “This means that those who want to divide us, they want to rule over us. This can be applied to relations between States or in respect of a particular state in an attempt to separate him from the inside”, he explained.