Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States Heads, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Putin criticized a recent resolution of the European parliament on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe, which blamed the 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact for the outbreak of World War II. He argued that the pact followed numerous agreements that several European countries signed with the Nazis that allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia and paved a way to war.
- Package: Russia CIS Heads
- Categories: Politics
- Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 20.12.2019
- Date published: 20.12.2019
- Author: Sergey Guneev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 2534x1744px, 2.7Mb
- Job-ID: 3d57534a5862dae6