Pandemic, Opposition and U.S. path: what Putin said to Heads of News Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed hope that challenges created by the novel coronavirus pandemic would spur countries to remove politically motivated restrictions against each other. The Russian leader also told heads of world news agencies at a meeting organized by TASS that countries should not build partner relations based on the principle of making-friends-against-anyone, adding that “there should be some ethics” in relations between state leaders. TASS gathered Putin’s main statements made at the meeting. Causes of the pandemic “Too many things have already been said on this subject, so it seems to me that making more comments…