In an interview with the Bloomberg news agency on the eve of the 77th anniversary of the start of World War II in Europe, the Kremlin leader not only reiterated a position reflecting his view of the continuing centrality of that conflict but also declared that borders not established by that conflict have a very different status than those established by it.
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Paul Goble: Putin warns against opening one ‘Pandora’s Box’ after opening others himself
Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on as he visits the youth educational forum \"Tavrida\" in Crimea on August 19, 2016.
Vladimir Putin says that anyone who wants to revise the borders set at the end of World War II both in Europe and in Asia would be opening "a Pandora's box" that would lead to ever greater problems, even as he himself has opened precisely such a box by using military force to change the borders of Georgia and Ukraine.
