Putin’s Year

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0For many observers Russia's President Putin is one of the few winners of 2016. The year is seen as a turning point when Moscow regained the status it enjoyed in the Soviet era - partly owing to the weakness of the European Union.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly http://www.europeansources.info/record/annual-presidential-address-to-the-federal-assembly/

Russia: President, 30.12.16: New Year greetings to foreign heads of state and government http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53680

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