assert its worthy role in the world celebrate the 350th anniversary of the birth of peter the great and vladimir putinay noted that the first emperor of shirina changed russia in a way. peter is rightfully called the great reformer, he managed to achieve fundamental changes in almost all spheres of life, primarily in government, in economic development, in creating powerful invincible army and fleet a grandiose breakthrough was achieved in the education of health education culture, as pushkin said, then the academy who is a hero, who is a navigator, then a carpenter, he was an all-encompassing soul on the eternal throne was a worker. about peter the great and his reforms. there are still disputes, but it is impossible not to recognize it was under this ruler that russia took the position of a strong great world power. and today. we pay tribute to his mighty personality, the integrity of nature, with a unique knowledge of fearlessness and perseverance in achieving his plan. and of course, his boundless active, amazing devotion to our fatherland received awards today. huddling spheres, for example, a mi

what do you call about the newly-appeared peter the great vladimir putin who is trying to justify whatis doing now, again, the press is actively commenting on who exactly is pushing putin to this, the gay kiriyenko of the current deputy head of the administration of the president of the russian federation is called the person who is currently in charge of the plan for the annexation of kherson oblast and parts of zaporizhia oblast is talking about what exactly he, well, in this way, decided to push putin about what they say is not there we don't need any eyes from the dpr and the lnr or the lpr let 's immediately annex these regions and hold pseudo-referendums there very quickly about the accession of these territories to russia and then already well, let them already prove that putin is not peter and adolf 2 and then let them prove this it's not russian territory, but you've watched kirienko, he was already the prime minister, if i'm not mistaken, of the russian federation at one time and it was still called the kinder surprise of russian politics, so what does this kinder surprise wa

these days, russia is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of peter the great, and vladimir putin today replied that the first emperor radically changed russia . peter is rightfully called the great reformer; he managed to achieve fundamental changes in almost all spheres of life, primarily in government in economic development creating a powerful invincible army and navy, a grandiose breakthrough was achieved in education, enlightenment, health care, culture, as pushkin said, the academy is a hero, a navigator, a carpenter, he was an all-embracing soul on the eternal throne was a worker. about peter the great and his reforms. there are still disputes, but it is impossible not to recognize it under this ruler. russia has taken the position of a strong world power. and today. we pay tribute to his mighty personality. integrity of nature with unique knowledge of fearlessness and perseverance in achieving what was conceived and, of course, his boundless active amazing devotion to our fatherland rewards. today , outstanding people from all over the country and completely different sph

these days, russia is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the birth of peter the great and vladimir putinay noted that the first emperor radically changed russia from the state administration system, then healthcare and education made russia a leading world power and, according to vladimir putin, everything the best qualities of peter the great and his love for the motherland inherent in those people who today received state awards in the kremlin are called the great reformers. he managed to achieve fundamental changes in almost all spheres of life, primarily in government, in economic development, in the creation of powerful , invincible army and navy, a grandiose breakthrough was achieved in education, health education, and culture. as i told pushkin to the academy who is a hero, then a navigator, then a carpenter, he was an all-encompassing soul on the eternal throne worker. about peter the great and his reforms. there are still disputes, but it is impossible not to recognize it under this ruler. russia has taken the position of a strong world power. and today. we pay tribute to his mi

one of the places that vladimir putin was talking about when he spoke about peter the great and some es that peter the great took back as vladimir putin put it, is in today's estonia, which is of course a nato ally. finland, which is looking to join nato, also extremely concerned because they have a big ethnic russian population, and there's actually a member of the russian parliament which is in a party close to vladimir putin that has now started a motion to essentially unrecognize the independence of lithuania, so the big question for a lot of eastern european states is, where does vladimir putin intend to stop? >> exactly. fred, apart from the new russian replacement for mcdonald's, how else is russia trying to buck the western sanctions? >> yeah, i mean, i think right now, the russians feel they're in a fairly comfortable position. one of the things the biden administration said as the war started is they said there would be crippling sanctions that would cripple this country's economy. and being on the ground here, it certainly seems to us as though russia's economy is fairly re

plus vladimir putin compares himself to russians. are peter the great and describe the invasion of ukraine as reclaiming territory? and as us lawmakers push to improve gun safety, d. w meets a parent to turn to activists who lost his son in the shooting that started the national debate in the us on gun ownership. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. with nato building up its troop presence on its eastern flank. russia is foreign ministry has said that moscow will respond proportionately that's according to russian news agency, inter fax, elsewhere ukrainian president, lot. m is the lens. he has addressed the shangri la security summit in singapore, where he spoke of the global effects of russia's invasion in his speech. zalinski called on the world to uphold international law in the face of russian imperialism . and one of the threat that russia poses to global peace, russian propaganda is a said u. s. and sprinting in many countries that does inflammation, campaign, dad, to russia's war against. your grade is a stand simply something about night. so about the

22:45, and immediately after, watch the continuation of oliver stone's film by putin andreev main events the great 350th anniversary of the birth of peter i vladimir putin vdnkh watched a new multimedia exhibition dedicated to the first russian emperor and large-scale celebrations in the northern capital. independence as a condition for the leadership of the president's statement at a meeting with young entrepreneurs, participants of the upcoming international economic forum in st. petersburg. for the first time in history in the dpr in donetsk, the donetsk court sentenced to death punishment of foreign mercenaries and your donbass on the side of kiev, they flee under the onslaught of the forces of the people's republics, as they knock out the last nazis of the antoshka sacra into a teleport from the front field, russian sappers work in the kharkov region, neutralize their osset ammunition. doctors, designers, artists, public figures , lugants, gosprima, who will be honored in the kremlin on russia day, peace in nagorno- karabakh cooperation in moscow and yerevan , the situation in ukraine sergey lavrov on a visit to armenia, details of negotiatio

and behind them is the future of the country with young scientists, engineers , businessmen, vladimir putin met in what the tasks that confronted peter the great are in tune with our times. without which it is impossible to achieve leadership, the statement of the head of state, to the fullest extent, the sentence by a mercenary from great britain and morocco was announced in the dpr, the court chose capital punishment less traffic jams more comfort for drivers for the reconstruction of two federal highways, the government allocates an additional 18.5 billion rubles. we'll tell you the details. to save the lives of a million, to make the world kinder and fairer, the names of the laureates of the state, science technology art awards, charity is different areas and in each outstanding achievement. on the shore of the desert waves, he stood full of great thoughts and looked into the distance. peter i was born 350 years ago, a genius from politics and military affairs, a dreamer. a hunter of everything new, a man who gave the world petersburg, under him, russia became an empire. and if it were we would have other celebrations. today i am all over

it was within the context, remember, of a peter the great exhibition in fairness that vladimir putin he exhibition and the situation now. and basically said look, peter the great gathered lugs lands and the west side at the time in the 17th century that wasn't really russian territory but we made it ours and we were getting back and he's saying the same thing is happening now with places like crimea and in a blake reference to ukraine, as well. ukrainian officials and critics of putin said that reveals that putin's real motives for invading ukraine are imperil and he won't stop at crimea and won't stop at ukraine. >> they make a good point. matthew chance, thank you very much. >>> coming up, former president trump lashing out after his own daughter's testimony was used against him. how he responded and what the january 6th select committee is planning next, stay with us. if you have age-related macular degeneration, there's only so much time before it can lead to blindness. but the areds 2 clinical study showed that a specific nutrient formula can help reduce the ri of dry amd progres

the meantime we'll following developments half a world away in ukraine where if you're thinking that vladimir putin is reining things back, think again. he's already comparing himself to peter the greatself the great, but right now, a lot of people are interpreting vladimir putin's remarks that he's just as great, after this. (burke) a new car loses about ten percent of its value the minute you drive off the lot. or more. that's why farmers new car replacement pays to replace it with a new one of the same make and model. get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ grillin', chillin', spillin', dillin'. bec-ing. never brie-ing. smokin', yolkin', flippin', dippin'. if you're not oozing, then you're losing. tater totting, cold or hotting. mealin', feelin', pie-ing, trying. color your spread. upgrade your bread. pair it. share it. kraft singles. square it. ♪ ♪ kraft♪ ♪ngles. treat dad to father's day at lowe's. - [female narrator] they line up by the thousands. each one with a story that breaks your heart. like ravette... every step, brought her pain. their only hope: mercy ships. the largest floating civilian hospital in the wo

the city in ruins. in russia, vladimir putin has openly compared himself to the 18th century russians. are peter the great drawing, a parallel between peter's military conquests. and what putin portrayed as a new quest to win back russian lands. but to go to period he to the great fault the northern war for 21 years ago. some might say he was fighting to seize territory from sweden. he wasn't seizing anything he showing that he was taking it back dry shell dropped by the list. that was what i show you could have been reclaiming and consolidating. that's what he was doing. now. it seems that it's our turn to reclaim and to consolidate. to paula was that a sheer through could ability d w's. russia analyst konstantin, angered ease in vilnius. with his perspective on putin's remarks, michael loves a continuation of trend that we've seen developing in from a say to lots of things over the last year. and he definitely sees himself as a digital figure in russian history. and he's comparison to peter the grades is not accidental. that's what she convinced himself that he is someone who gives russia it's new ident

pictures from the life of peter the great will open on the field of mars 22, and in the city center on ostrovsky square a flower festival will be held russian president vladimir putin today will visit a multimedia exhibition at vdnkh , which is timed to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the birth of peter i , also the head.

the fascists had come here to visit them . well, two days of conversation and everything changes. vladimir putin compared himself to peter the greate collect land and improve life on these lands. well, i'm just curious. how did your society, in particular, react to this in the societies of your neighbors in the baltic countries, because this is what their non-collecting looks like. as a very sick and endless ambition that will not stop in ukraine, we understand that lithuania has a very categorical attitude towards the russian federation. the question could be repeated in russian because i do not 100% even understand the ukrainian case there eh life and it is clear that this does not only concern ukraine but also the baltic countries and lithuania, including dangerous, perhaps with aggression, how exactly, you don’t know. we already look at him with a little pity, because this is probably napoleon’s kit, very advanced, and not this. do you understand that the imperial ambitions and that before peter the great will always extend to the strange barth and it was always like that maybe there was some small there was such an uh interva

the st. petersburg dialogue between business and government aleksey prokin, ntv television company well, today vladimir putin visited a multimedia exhibition dedicated to peter the great. it was opened at vdnkh in honor of the 350th anniversary of the legendary russian emperor. culture of the development of shipping founding st. petersburg. and, of course, the great battles of the exhibition are made in the format of an immersive performance. that is, visitors can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the petrine era thanks to computer special effects. both graphics and voluminous scenery will be on display until the end of september. and, of course, the largest celebrations in honor of peter i are taking place in st. petersburg today. another monument was opened there, to the founder of the city in front of the lakhta center, a sculpture of peter the saving appeared drowning baubles. the history of the monument. it began back in 1907, when at an exhibition in paris , emperor nicholas ii liked the sketch of this monument, nicholas paid all the costs for its creation and installation from his own funds and formed the basis of the composition. the legend according to

officials are downplaying that side of peter the great, instead of focusing on his efforts to transform russia into a great power. now that is not lost on vladimir putin. on thursday, he visited an exhibition in moscow dedicated to the early life of the russian czar . after signing the guest book fulton met with a group of young entrepreneurs in, started developed during the q and a photon drew a striking parallel that he and peter, the great surprise, shared the same historic requests recognition of income with pay to the grateful the northern wolf a 21 years ago, some might say he was fighting to seize territory from sweden. he wasn't seizing anything. he showing that he was taking it back. rachelle took by this. that was what i show you could reclaiming and consolidating. that's what he was doing. so now it seems that it's our turn to reclaim and to consolidate. to paula was i, she threw, could it be at the convenient when vladimir putin launched his so called special military operation, he claimed that his aim in ukraine was in part d notification. now, after putin's high praise for peter, the great he says moscow's real objective is clear. old sc

the soviet union? in fact, one can trace it back four centuries, and vladimir putin himself doesn't hesitate to reference peter the greathole bunch of russian thinkers, writers and poets through the centuries who had this idea of the great russia, which would dominate its neighbours. you're absolutely right. there is... there is a long, long history and story of this really...confusion and collusion and overlap of the russian national identity and imperial identity. i'm sorry to interrupt. sure. but ijust want to extend this thought as to what putin is tapping into, because, as you say, it's much bigger than putin. mm—hm. when he wrote that essay, i believe it was more than a year ago in... july. july last year. yes, quite. ..he talked about the historical unity of russians and ukrainians. "russians and ukrainians are one people, a single whole." he suggested, and that there was no such thing as a separate ukrainian nation. are there, in your historian�*s view, any grains of truth in that? one thing that you see here and what you hear is really replicating the russian imperial view of the existence of the big russian na

peter the great. instead of focusing on his efforts to transform russia into a great power, now that is not lost on vladimir putin. on thursday, he visited an exhibition in moscow dedicated to the early life of the russian czar . after signing the guest book fulton met with a group of young entrepreneurs in, started developed during the q and a photon drew a striking parallel that he and peter the great no surprise, shared the same historic requests interest of income with pay to the grateful the northern wolf, for 21 years. some might say he was fighting to seize territory from sweden. he wasn't seizing anything he showing that he was taking it back rachelle took by this, that was what i show you could reclaiming and consolidating. that's what he was doing. so now it seems that it's our turn to reclaim and to consolidate. to paula was a shit, you could have been at the convenient when vladimir putin launched his so called special military operation. he claimed that his aim in ukraine was in part d notification. now, after putin's high praise for peter, the great he says moscow's real objective is clear. old scho

achievements of the royal economy, there is an open exposition dedicated to peter the great, where vladimir visited it today putin'sn format is one that an innovator tsar would obviously like, gesture-driven graphics, an interactive installation. exhibits can and should be touched by visitors. they promise a complete immersion in peter's times in 40 minutes, they are held in two dozen halls, occupying 2.5 thousand square meters. you can travel back to peter's times virtually using the ntv.ru website. a new section has been opened there dedicated to the celebration of the anniversary , for those who decide to attend the event, a map will come in handy on it places where exhibitions, festivals, fairs are held, for example, on the field of mars in st. petersburg, you can see an exposition of 30 paintings of the life of peter poklonnaya hill, the cities of military glory were awarded. swords of victory solemn ceremony was timed to coincide with the upcoming day of russia 45 award blades according to the number of cities awarded the honorary name , the ural gunsmiths manually made swords made of the famous zlatoust stee

the whole opening. we continue to broadcast vladimir putin congratulated social workers on their professional holiday the president noted that the foundations of social protection of the population were laid by peter the greateparately. the head of state highlighted the role of volunteers and volunteers in the work of the social protection system of the population and thanked everyone who works in this area, i quote patience and responsiveness for their work. the bank of russia raised the threshold for foreign transfers for individuals, innovations apply to russians and non-residents from friendly countries the transaction limit in the presence of an account has been increased from 50 to 150,000 dollars per month or the equivalent in another currency without opening an account, the maximum of 10,000 dollars was previously 5,000. at the same time , transfers abroad remain prohibited for jurisprudence and countries that support sanctions restrictions are valid until september 30 inclusive, and in other economic news, the mechanism for supplying ukrainian grain will be based on the positions of the four sides of russia, ukraine, turkey, and the united nations announced this in jankara. today there continues th

of the first russian emperor peter the great, he devoted his reign to the development of strengthening the power of russia, in particular, about this today said vladimir putin with young entrepreneurs. eh, and scientists, we are experiencing and living in an era of change. it's all obvious. they understand this, they see it happening and the geopolitical transformation of the scientific technological world is changing, and it is changing rapidly in order to aspire to some kind of leadership. i’m not talking globally, or if it’s at least in some way unconditional, any country, any people, any ethnos must ensure their sovereignty, because there are no intermediate e that make up the intermediate states or the country is sovereign or a colony, how would the colony not be called? so, well, i won’t give now, some examples, so as not to offend anyone, but if a country or a group of countries is not able to make sovereign decisions, it is already a colony to a certain extent. the fact that we have to, like, uh, defend ourselves , fight for it, then, that's an obvious thing. right now we were at the exhibition dedicated to the 350th anniversary of peter i. almost n

remaining front line city in the east are holding on amid intense fighting and thousands of civilians are trapped there. vladimir putin compared himself to peter the greatgoal of returning russian lands to a greater m pyre. joining us is allison barber and former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. allison, what's the latest on the ground there? >> reporter: it is hard to know the death toll in this war but it continues to grow. this collection of burned out tanks, russian military vehicles is constantly getting additions. this is new. so is this one here. some 200 ukrainian soldiers are said to be dying every day right now and ukrainian officials warn they're outgunned on the eastern front lines and need more advanced weapons than what they have and what they expect to get from the west. senior aide to president zelenskyy said that they need some 300 rocket launch systems to match russian power on the eastern front. in mariupol fresh water is difficult to access. the uk warns they are at risk of a major cholera outbreak. today we were able to speak to some bakers, farmers business owners in kyiv. the stories are gut wrenching. the worries for the future still

and now more about the multimedia exhibition visited by vladimir putin vdnkh peter the great birth ofcated in 10 key thematic zones united by a single storyline. these are the ways of development of russia that peter i himself once determined, the president looked exposition at the end of the head of state. he left an entry in the book of honored guests. the exhibition will run until the end of september. the anniversary of the first russian emperor is celebrated today throughout the country, festivities began long before this date, and st. petersburg became the main venue for celebrations. alexei mikhailovich, but a peace icon for the tsar's son, according to the established traditions wrote its height was 49.5 cm. the width of the shoulders, 13 1/2 11 inches. the baby is not large, but pyotr alekseevich turned out to be great. restored icon cypress board st. peter and the holy trinity this was conceived by simon ushakov, since the modern master also wrote on the anniversary of the last russian tsar and first emperor. where did dmitry mironenko go? the same icon is unknown, but in 40

the allies. grim news comes as russian president, vladimir putin, is comparing himself to peter the great.ys he wants to return russia to a great empire again. for more on all of this, we will turn to alison barber in ukraine. >> hey, katie. ukrainian officials have accused russian forces of committing over 11,000 were crimes in the last three months. this is just one example. this is a cultural house. a place where the halls used to be full of music, play, children, happiness. it was targeted by russian missiles. you can see it all along here where it was a shelf aggressively from the outside, hit with heavy artillery. people say this was not an accident. it was a specific target. this is as the fighting in the east intensifies and the donbas region, ukrainian officials have said that they have lost up to 200 troops a day. one of president zelenskyy's top aides told us that to match russian firepower in the area, they need 300 additional rocket launch systems in order to basically keep things where they are. they need more advanced weapons than what's the west is currently sending, katie.

the birthday of peter i exactly 350 years ago in moscow the great founder of st. petersburg was born, and in on this day, speaking to young entrepreneurs, president vladimir putin said our lot. the same fate that befell peter, namely, to return and strengthen russian territories. this is exactly what is happening now in the donbass and as the russian special operation is successfully advancing. the tone of rhetoric in the west is changing more and more , and there is no trace left of the victory slogans of april and early may. instead, an increasingly open statement of the deplorable state of the armed forces of ukraine for example, today the british ndbandon published data from a british intelligence report, according to which, with this report, the armed forces of ukraine are suffering huge losses. and today, the russian armed forces have a twenty -fold superiority in artillery and a 40-fold superiority in ammunition. this is british intelligence. also in the same report, it is indicated that almost the entire ammunition of e-rockets , tornadoes and hurricanes were used up, and russian aviation also dominates the air, by the way, with the fact that ukraine has alm

how the empire of peter the great was born at vdnkh is not told by the museum showcase multimedia performance. one of the first to enter was vladimir putinalong with the curators of the exhibition. he walked through the main halls. in each , the pages of the era of the reign of the first russian emperor seemed to come to life. here, it seems, on the same ship with him, the viewer is walking along the neva or experiencing the streltsy rebellion together. at the end, the president signed the book of honored guests 4 years ago. vladimir putin signed a decree celebrating peter's birthday today, the whole country celebrated it, but most of all, of course, st. petersburg. when the ringing of the bells of the peter and paul cathedral is heard over the fortress, do gunners give the command for the midday volley ? it is now that they are checking the clock and shooting at the cannon. she exactly at noon treveka ago, the founder of the city, peter the great, ordered to water on every occasion , loved, someone died, someone was born, some kind of victory began the working day. end of the working day. there are 18th century shots, and the cannon is

the washington post" column this week. and let's get started. >>> on thursday vladimir putin compared himself to none other than peter the great, the russian czar, and suggested his own mission as president was to return and restore land that belonged to russia just like his hero did in the 18th century. it seems to me in the repeat days and weeks putin has been having more success in his war effort, but i wanted to check my math on that. so joining me now is cnn's senior international correspondent matthew chance. matthew, give us a sense of russia's gains in the east, which appear to be happening around severdonets right now. >> that's right. the gains are very slow, but every day we're seeing reports coming from severdonets, which is the last city nominally under ukraine control, in the luhansk region and seems a question of not when but if that key city n falls under russian control. ukraine bringing the fight to a street to street level to on the one hand neutralize the artillery advantage the russians have, but also make it as painful as possible for the russians to declare what would be a big political victory for them when they take eve

on the gallows with chains. about peter the great emperor reformer dmitry kaster multimedia exhibition peter the great the birth of an empire visited by vladimir putintions dedicated to the anniversary of the reformer of the state. the president was shown a large-scale exposition, where in eighteen halls, with the help of digital technologies , the entire grandiose peter the great epoch is presented, the historical rhymes of the time of peter and russia, today, sometimes amazing, peter the sea, we opened russia to a world of new opportunities at the exhibition, which the head of state examined, an important historical context of peter’s motives and actions, because the swedish crown in syria of aggression and interventions , which she began back in the livonian war and continued in the time of troubles, tore away the historically russian lands, and it was them that peter returned the northern war for 21 years. it would seem there fought with hmm, traded something with sweden, did not reject anything. he returned. yes, and so far it is. here are all the goodies. uh, where today, petersburg was founded, well, under him, when he laid the foundation of

the way that all of this is being portrayed here in russia. essentially what vladimir putin said is that he believes that peter the great, who obviously took thegion around st. petersburg and many other places in northeastern europe as well, that he was not taking land but that he was returning land and strengthening it, which obviously means that vladimir putin believes that that land was intrinsically land that belonged to russia. he then said that it falls to the current lot, meaning his government, to do the same thing. so obviously likening what is going on in ukraine right now to the russians taking back territory. and sense that happened, there has really been a big difference in messaging here. i was watching a lot of the state media over the weekend and that seems to be the newhew man being portrayed here, essentially what they are doing in ukraine, the war in ukraine is then taking back territory, which is of course a fundamental change to what russia said at the beginning of when this war started when they said that this was a short term special military operation, that russia did not intend to occupy ukrainian territory. certainly

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spokeswoman for the foreign ministry about some of the things that vladimir putin has been saying, the fact he believes he is in the history of peter the greatially taking back land, he believes, russian land there in ukraine. and that led to a testy exchange. here's what happened. >> the president of the russian federation on thursday said, the special military operation by russia, the invasion of ukraine, do the things that peter the great did in the great northern war and said that russia was in his testimony taking back territory that was rightfully russia's and strengthening it. is that not an admission of severe breach of international law? >> translator: do you use that tone of voice when you question us? take a look at 2014. we had a referendum. >> the big question is take back and strengthen other countries' territories. is that not a violation of international law? >> translator: was there a legal basis to invade iraq? >> i'm not talking about iraq. you are invading a sovereign country. >> translator: you mentioned our invasion, an occupation of territories. what territories are you talking about? >> well, for instance the entire r

, and what all this can lead to, we perfectly understand in all the newspapers, but i quoted vladimir putin he referred to peter the greatreturned his earthly money to russia and putin is now allowing the same thing, so i can imagine how agree that the president had never said anything like that before. various experts spoke about this, who named all these very lands there. he spoke earth. and if it weren't for this scoundrel lena if it wasn't, then we understood, yes, yes because of him, and the donbass moved to e, ukraine yes, but i imagine how the inhabitants of the baltic countries, they are planed when they heard that putin wants to regain his primordial primordial russian earth. and not only and not only not only i know what i will remember now. i know i remembered. have you ever been to riga have you ever been to riga yes, but you saw yes, that's milda, but it stands with stars. this is a monument. i saw it in the very center of the city. yes, there is a guard of honor, they saw this memory. yes, flowers, laid there no, no, yes, and there you know how interesting. there is a milda standing guards uh-huh, and there

strengthened on the gallows with chains. about peter the great emperor reformer dmitry kastera multimedia exhibition peter i the birth of an empire visited by vladimir putinelebrations dedicated to the anniversary of the state reformer. sometimes amazing peter not only strengthened the russian people's sea, opened russia and new opportunities at the exhibition, which the head of state examined the important historical context of the motives and actions of peter after all, the swedish crown in syria aggression and intervention, which she began back in the livonian war and continued in the time of troubles, torn away historically russian lands. it was them that peter returned the northern war, he fought for 21 years. it would seem that he fought there and rejected something, did not reject anything. he returned. yes, and so far it is. that's all adjoining. uh, where today, petersburg was founded, well, under him, when he laid the foundation of a new capital , none of the countries of europe recognized it. uh, everyone recognized this territory from russia as sweden, and there from time immemorial. uh, along with the svinogorsk peoples , the slavs lived, and

the russian public. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen has more from moscow. >> a display of patriotism on russia day. russian president vladimir putin handing out medals just days after he likened himself to peter the greatin ukraine, russia is taking back land that is rightfully russia's. >> translator: he went there to take it back and strengthen it. that's what he was doing. it seems it has also fallen to us to take back and strengthen territories. if we take these basic values as fundamentals, we'll prevail in solving the issues we're facing. >> after stating at the start of the war that russia has no intention of occupying ukraine, kremlin tv now is amplifying the new slogan, taking back and strengthening. >> translator: we all need to explain to the ukrainians we are not playing. we, as our president said, are taking back what's supposed to be ours and strengthening it. >> take back and strengthen, those words also start the show of the man known as putin's chief propagandist, then showing images of people in russian occupied territory in ukraine receiving russian passports. and pro-russian fighters in ukraine's donbas region firing at ukrainian forces with a clear message. >> translator: all of th

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but i'm sure you, just like me, heard vladimir putin's words the other day, where he appeared to be comparing himself to peter the greatse, once russia's imperial leader — and he said, "it is also our destiny, like his, peter the great, to return what is russia's and strengthen our nation." did you find that chilling, thinking about the longer term and your security with regard to russia? moldova belongs to the citizens of moldova. we have a very strong mandate to do what we do. very strong support, absolute support for our independence. and that's what we plan to do. of course, we have seen statements coming from the russian federation about our region, about our country, which were not always framed in the best positive manner. but we don't take this statement that you just evoked in any way being attributable to the republic of moldova. we're an independent... but i guess, if i may, here's the question — you are a neutral country, you know, you're not in nato. you've chosen very deliberately to pursue a neutral path. you cannot be neutral, can you, in the current circumstances? the constitution of moldova was adopte

after vladimir putin said to him, this is about russia taking back land that vladimir putin believes is intrinsically russia's and he believes he's very much in the tradition of czar peter the great. i was at an economic forum and at a press conference by the spokeswoman for russia's foreign ministry and she kept talking about america essentially being responsible for what's going on in ukraine right now from the russian point of view. i then confronted her with the fact that even vladimir putin says this is about taking back land for the russians. and that led to the following confrontation. >> the president of the russian federation on thursday said, and he likened the special military operation by russia, the invasion of ukraine to the things that peter the great did in the great northern war, and said that russia was, in his estimation, taking back territory that was rightfully russia's and strengthening it. is that not an admission of a severe breach of law? >> when will you start using the same tone of voice when you question authorities? take a look at 2014. we had a referendum. >> the big question is, take back and strengthen other country's territories. is that not a vio

mean it was, you know, very symbolic, potentially, and telling that vladimir putin chose this moment to compare himself to peter the greatition about peter the great, drawing parallels from the 7th century to now. said look back then when peter the great invaded western territory, it was not really russian, but in fact, in the past, it was, and russia was just taking back. in some ways saying that's what we're doing now with crimea and with ukraine as well so it's led to all sorts of concerns that what vladimir putin is really engaged in now isn't the de-naziification of ukraine, he's not concerned about western military expansion. what he's really embarked on is an imperial adventure to regain and regather russian lands that, in the past, were dominated by moscow, whether in the soviet period or imperial period, so it's fueled concerns that the, that that adventure may not stop in ukraine, but could expand elsewhere as well, erin. >> matthew chance, thank you very much, that brings me to a man now wanted for telling the truth, russian investigative journalist and intelligence expert now the target of a criminal probe by

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