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Putin remains uncompromising on Ukraine, but is public discourse on war changing in Russia?
Key takeaways
- "Russia is what it is, and we're not ashamed of showing it," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once told me in an interview.
- But I recently heard an updated version from veteran pop and folk singer Nadezhda Babkina.
- After receiving an award from President Putin, Babkina told an audience in the Kremlin: "Russia will never surrender thanks to our remarkable, multi-ethnic genetic code... that holds us all together.
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Steve Rosenberg BBC Russia Editor Reuters Putin insists Russia's war aims in Ukraine are being reached, even though initial plans were for a short military operation If Vladimir Putin's Russia had an official slogan, what would it be?
"Russia is what it is, and we're not ashamed of showing it," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov once told me in an interview.
But I recently heard an updated version from veteran pop and folk singer Nadezhda Babkina.
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