Putin tells Russians ‘everything will be fine’published at 01:53 Greenwich Mean Time
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People react as they take part in New Year celebrations in central Moscow
Speaking 25 years to the day since his first national address as acting president of Russia, Vladimir Putin told Russia in a midnight address that he was confident “everything [would] be fine” in 2025.
“And now, on the threshold of the new year, we are thinking about the future,” he said.
“We are confident that everything will be fine, we will only move forward. We know for sure that the absolute value for us was, is and will be the fate of Russia, the well-being of its citizens.”
He pays tribute to soldiers fighting in Ukraine but did not mention anything specific about the war or the economy.
Inflation reached 9.5% in Russia this year, according to Reuters news agency, following the central bank’s decision to hold its key interest rate at 21%.
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