According to Russian
President, "patriotism means devoting oneself to the development of the
country, its progress".
MOSCOW, May
10./TASS/. Patriotism is Russia’s national idea, Russian President Vladimir
Putin said on Sunday, cautioning, however, against flag-waving moods.
"Yes, it’s
patriotism, I think there can be nothing else here," Putin said when asked
about the Russian national idea. But patriotism should not be spurious, he
stressed in an interview with the program ‘Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" a
fragment of which was uploaded to the Instagram page of its presenter Pavel
Zarubin.
According to the
president, "patriotism means devoting oneself to the development of the
country, its progress". "But this does not mean that we must keep
clinging to our heroic past, we must look ahead, into our no less heroic and
successful future, and this is the ticket to success," the Russian leader
stressed.
In December 2019,
President Putin addressed the topic of patriotism at his annual news
conference, saying that he saw it as the only possible ideology of the modern
democratic society.
"In my opinion,
patriotism is the only possible ideology in the modern democratic society.
Patriotism in the broadest and best sense," the Russian leader said back
then. "It must be depoliticized and aimed to strengthen the inner
framework of the Russian state," he stressed.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-05-2020
