Russian influence worrying US: Putin
AP
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin hit out at Western criticism of the Kremlin, saying it was aimed at countering Russia's growing influence in the world.
At a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi after talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin suggested, without naming it directly, that the United States saw Russia as a threat to its unchallenged superpower status.
"Russia's economic, political and military potential is clearly growing and a competitor that had already been written off is emerging in the world," Putin said in comments shown on state television.
"This is the main reason [for criticism], the unwillingness to take into account Russia's legitimate interests and a desire to put it in a position where someone has decided it should be," he added.
Already facing criticism that he has stifled democratic freedoms since coming to power in 2000, Putin's reputation in the West has been severely tarnished by accusations that he has been misusing Russia's oil and gas wealth to bully ex-Soviet neighbours and Western energy companies.
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The United States is worried, but I don't think it is Russian 'influence' that is worrying them...It is the Neo-Soviets Whoring ways of selling military equipment to every terrorist supporting state that wants them, as well as every tin pot dictator in the world...
The Neo-Soviets / Russians have nothing to offer the world except for oil and whatever military hardware they are able to produce, otherwise they are nothing more than a dead man walking...
Islamic jihadist and hungry land poor Chinese to the south, a demographic collapse on the horizon, etc. Russia / Neo-Soviets are finished...
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