During a speech last week, President Vladimir Putin returned to one of his favorite claims, which is that Russians are guided by a moral and spiritual conservatism that rejects the social experiments and cultural upheaval he sees in the “monstrous” Western concerns about race and gender. “Each of us is a human being,” Mr. Putin said. “This is what matters.”
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A man, wearing a protective face mask, walks across the Red Square amid the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Moscow on Oct. 28, 2021.