MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Russia's enemies on Dec. 4 of seeking to carve it up and destroy its economy to punish it for growing strong, in an annual state of the union speech that seemed to outdo even his own recent strident nationalism.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to deliver his annual address to the Federal council (the two houses of the Russian parliament) at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 4, 2014.