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When we consider that in 1989 the number of people living in poverty in Russia was 4 million, we are left with the monstrous fact that the free market economic reforms imposed on Russia in the 1990s led to the impoverishment of 72 million people in less than a decade.
Given this history and given Moscow's repeated attempts to reach a modus vivendi with the West, Putin's address to the Russian Federal Assembly was that of a leader left with no choice other than to adapt to the varieties of a US hegemon, for whom peaceful co-existence is anathema.
Thus, for Russia, it is now a case of meeting might with might.
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