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Militarisation does not solve problems, Putin says

This content was published on Jan 28, 2009 Putin, who presided over a big increase in Russia’s defence budgets in his previous post as president, told the World Economic Forum (WEF) that Russia was “against spending more money on military efforts”. Putin also described the global financial crisis as a “perfect storm” whose destructive powers were multiplied. Putin refrained from blaming the United…