【Russian Speaker: Europe Is Now Ruled by Authoritarian Regimes】
Moscow time December 23, 2025, Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, said at the final session of 2025:
We are based on the fact that today Europe is usually ruled by authoritarian regimes, who use the rhetoric of democracy as a cover. Others are taught how to live, but they themselves have long ceased to be role models.
Volodin added:
If you want to set an example, bring it out, but in that case you will be more required. When others are taught, but they themselves are not role models, this may be wrong. The good news is that we have also begun to understand this, and this understanding is certainly accumulated over time, but it may only make us wiser. Therefore, we will not create idols for ourselves, but first ask ourselves.
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