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Putin defends his foreign policy

Accuses foes of trying to dismember his country

Agencies
In an annual speech ranging from economy to school tests, Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday defended the Kremlin's aggressive foreign policy as necessary for his country's sheer survival.
Putin also accused Russia's enemies of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong. He described Russia as in serious danger, surrounded by enemies who sought its destruction.
Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March following the ouster of ProRussian President Viktor Yanukovych and was later accused of supplying pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in ammunition and manpower.
Putin in his annual state-of-the-nation address at the Grand Kremlin Palace defended the annexation of Crimea, describing it as Russia's spiritual ground, "our Temple Mount," and added that national pride and sovereignty are "a necessarycondition forsurvival" ofRussia.
Russia's "enemies of yesterday" wished on it the same fate as Yugoslavia in the 1990s, he said in the speech, which ran for more than an hour and was interrupted repeatedly by applause.
"There is no doubt they would have loved to see the Yugoslavia scenario of collapse and dismemberment for us - with all the
tragic consequences it would have for the peoples of Russia. This has not happened. We did not allow it," he said.
So determined was the West to destroy Russia, he said, that sanctions would have been imposed even without the crisis in Ukraine.
"I am certain that if all this did not take place... they would come up with another reason to contain Russia's growing capabilities, "he said.
He said Russia was justified in intervening in Ukraine because the West had supported a "coup" in Kiev.
“ How can one support an armed seizure of power, violence, murder?... How can one support the attempts that followed to suppress with the help of armed forces the people in the southeast who did not agree with this lawlessness?... This is pure cynicism."
Meanwhile, the Ukraine crisis was to take centre stage yesterday at a meeting of top diplomats from OSCE nations after US President Barack Obama said Moscow was unlikely to shift its stance until sanctions really hurt.
Ahead of the meeting, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Moscow to help halt the raging Ukraine crisis saying Washington does not want to see Russia isolate itself "through its own actions".
Ukraine's military yesterday said it was fighting more than 30,000 rebel soldiers in the east of the country - including up to 10,000 Russians and mercenaries.