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"Mr President, every contiguous country has felt the pressure of Putinite revanchism and energy diplomacy: the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia – most spectacularly in 2008 – and Azerbaijan.
In fact you do not need to be a neighbour of Russia to be on the receiving end of it. We have had problems with our ambassador being harassed, expulsion of diplomatic personnel from the United Kingdom and, of course, the Litvinenko affair.
Why? What does the Kremlin have to gain from this kind of behaviour? I think the answer lies in what German historians used to call ‘Primat der Innenpolitik’, what colleagues on the left of this House might think of as, in Leninist terms, exporting your internal contradictions.
It suits a basically insecure regime to keep fomenting troubles on its border, and that is why the development of a pluralist, liberal, multi-party regime in Russia is not simply a good objective in itself but ought for us to be an imperative of Western foreign policy."@en1
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