Russian President Putin spoke in favor of liberalism as freedom of thought, not servility 
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke out about liberalism and opposed “And copying foreign samples. The Russian leader expressed his opinion in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “, reports TASS.
” If liberalism is considered freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom to seek a solution – then, of course, we have always had it, there is and always will be, “Putin said in response to the question of the confrontation between Slavophiles and Westernizers.
However, the Russian leader noted, if by liberalism we mean foreign patterns of the current and the need to copy them, “then this is not the best option”. Putin also recalled the phrase of the Russian writer and thinker Fyodor Dostoevsky, who said: “Our liberals are lackeys who are looking for someone to clean their boots for,” and stressed that this is not true liberalism.
Previously, an official representative Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said that the ideas of liberalism are very close to Putin, but “liberalism and liberalism are different.” “Can we say now that someone can be attracted by the ideas of American liberalism? The question is very dubious, ”said the press secretary. He also named three components of the ideology of the President of Russia – development, stability and prosperity of the country.