Vladimir Putin spoke at a meeting of the Council of Legislators. He said that Russia is not going to go into "self-isolation" Russia will expand pragmatic, equal, mutually beneficial, exclusively partnership relations with friendly countries in Eurasia, Africa and Latin America, he said.
Putin said that the states that wanted to create problems for Russia arranged them for themselves. The elites of Western countries will still come back to haunt their policies, Putin stressed. The work on the integration of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions should be a priority.