Modern international problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while answering a question of one of the employees of the Ulan-Ude aircraft-building plant during a visit to the enterprise.
"Of course, all the problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why? Because the then world order - in a sense it still exists today - was built after World War II by the countries that won that war. First of all, the United States and the Soviet Union," Vladimir Putin said.
The Russian leader stressed that the system of the bipolar world "began to crumble down" after the collapse of the USSR, when geopolitical interests turned out to be more important for the West than confrontation with the Soviet Union.
