Slutsky: Games in Baku will create a Europe "without dividing lines"

The head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, speaking to Vestnik Kavkaza as part of the presentation of the European Games in Baku which took place yesterday in Moscow, emphasized the very difficult geopolitical situation which now exists in the world.

Russia is positioned as a common enemy, "an aggressor that eats off something, some territory."

However, at the same time, according to Slutsky, "Europe is now more and more aware that Russia and Eastern Europe, our common centuries-old values, are ​​much closer than that which has beew artificially implanted today by those who would like the world in the 21st century to be built as a unipolar world.

"The European Olympic Games is a brilliant project, which is the consolidation of Europe, the consolidation of young people who today compete in the Olympics, and tomorrow, making friends, and understanding each other better through this communication will create a new Europe, a Europe of the 21st century, a Europe without dividing lines," Slutsky said.