Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is an "absolutely democratic" country, and those who say otherwise do not know the specifics of Russian life. He spoke about this in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov for the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin ", which was shown on the air of the TV channel" Russia-1 ".

“Russia is an absolutely democratic country where really strong, very proud and very free people live. If someone says otherwise, he simply does not know and does not understand our country, "Peskov said.

He also stressed that Russia is a sovereign state, and only that power is concentrated in the hands of Putin, which is provided for by the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

According to Peskov, Washington is trying to call some countries democratic and some not, and the virtual Summit for Democracy held by the United States on December 9-10 "actually divided the whole world into undemocratic and democratic."

Earlier it became known that the Summit for Democracy, to which 110 countries were invited this year, may be repeated next year. Russia, which along with China, Turkey, Hungary and other countries was not invited to participate, is skeptical about this format: Moscow criticized the summit, accusing the United States of trying to privatize the word "democracy".

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