"Putin is not very smart." As China and other countries of the East and Asia, the Russian Federation pointed to its minor role. Interview with Portnikov

The heads of 14 states-participants of the Association came to the Samhai Organization of Cooperation (SCO) in Samarkand. The Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was also present there, but the attitude of the leaders of other countries was quite contemptuous. In an interview with Radio HB, political scientist and publicist Vitaliy Portnikov explained what was happening at the summit and what interests pursued the participants of the SCO during conversations with a dictator.

Video of the day - according to some experts, at the Putin summit pointed to his place. What is it for a place and do we not give you a valid one? - Of course, for many reasons, we want to give the desired for the valid one. One way or another, we need to be aware that for Vladimir Putin himself is a meeting - evidence that he is not in international isolation. And this is the most important thing that Russian propaganda now works for.

Because on the one hand, we hear in ours and in Western media, which Putin is in unprecedented international isolation. On the other hand, he meets at the level of leaders of China, India, Pakistan, Central Asia, Mongolia, Iran. It is Russia's foreign policy aimed at the East. And by and large, this foreign policy is not much different from the Soviet Union's foreign policy.

For a long time, the Soviet Union could consider that it was isolated from the Western countries, and in the 1920s, and in the 1950s, and in the 1980s. However, his foreign policy was based primarily in the East - on relations with China, which, however, were poisoned by the conflict of communist parties. On a good relationship with India, attempts to play the role of mediator in the conflicts of Asian countries.

And such foreign policy for the population of the Soviet Union was absolutely logical. However, the Soviet Union had the opportunity to develop conditional relations with those European countries that were in its area of ​​influence. But it was a small part of Europe. In this regard, we can say that Putin pursues a foreign policy that was traditional for Moscow from the Bolshevik coup. But this is only on one side.