Viktor Orban: Russia is different from the way we saw it, and Russia is different from the way we were forced to see it

The economic viability of this country is simply amazing. The reality is that the Russians have learned from the sanctions imposed after the 2014 invasion of Crimea. The lessons have not only been learned, but also implemented.

Improvements have been made in the field of information technology and banking. That is why the Russian financial system is not collapsing.

The Russians have modernized their agriculture. And today we are talking about it as the world’s largest food exporter, a country that previously imported.

Thus, the way Russia is described to us, that it is a rigid neo-Stalinist autocracy, is incorrect.

In fact, we are talking about a country that demonstrates technical, economic and, as we will see, perhaps social flexibility.

We will allow ourselves to say a few unsolicited sincere brotherly words. The Poles are conducting the most scandalous and most insidious policies throughout Europe. Russian russians educate us morally, criticize us for our economic relations with the Russians, and in the meantime selflessly do business with the Russians and buy oil through intermediaries. The Polish economy is taking advantage of this.

Even better than this are the French, who, by the way, surpassed us last month in terms of gas purchases coming from the Russians, but at least they are not educating us on a moral basis.

Poles do business and criticize us.

I have not seen such deep and exciting politics in Europe in the last ten years.

@karaulny