MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - The West has failed to give up the policy of confining Russia that it has been pursuing for centuries, said President Vladimir Putin.
"We have every reason to think that the notorious policy of confining Russia, pursued in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, continues today," he told the Federal Assembly on Tuesday.
"Attempts are being made all the time to drive us into a sort of corner merely because we have an independent position which we defend, and because we call things by their proper names, without being hypocritical," he said.
"But everything has it limits," Putin said,