0h 11min, jun 3, 2026 y - Putin uncompromising on Ukraine

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f 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.

That fits.

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.

"Anyone who doesn't like that," she added, "can go and poison themselves."

In many ways, the line "they can go and poison themselves" encapsulates Russia in 2026 - unapologetic, unrepentant and uncompromising.

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