Published: 11:14, May 5, 2025 | Updated: 12:45, May 5, 2025
Putin: Reliable Russia-China ties strengthen global stability
By Xinhua

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets with attendees of "Znanie" youth forum at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, also known as the Victory Museum, at Poklonnaya Hill in western Moscow on April 30, 2025. (PHOTO / POOL/ AFP)

MOSCOW - Reliable and stable Russia-China relations strengthen stability in the world, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary aired Sunday on Rossiya-1 TV channel.

Putin said that when he first became Russian president 25 years ago, there were first signs that the center of economic growth would move to the Asia-Pacific region.

Russia has been actively developing relations with China, Putin noted, adding that the bilateral ties are strategic and profound today, as "turbulence in the world has not decreased, but only increased."

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"And we have such reliable, stable relations, which, by the very fact of their existence, strengthen stability in the world," Putin added.