Russian President Putin Warns On What The Impact Would Be If Russia Should Collapse

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TASS: Impacts of Russia’s collapse could be much bloodier than in Yugoslavia, says Putin 

"It can be definitely said that we would be feeling very bad, we would be battling to survive now rather than seeking to boost birth rate," he said 

 MOSCOW, December 12. /TASS/. Consequences in case of Russia’s collapse could be much more dramatic and bloodies than in former Yugoslavia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview for a documentary entitled "Russia: Its Recent History" aired on the Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.

"It can be definitely said that we would be feeling very bad, we would be battling to survive now rather than seeking to boost birth rate. 

And the tragic example of Yugoslavia demonstrates that if we had lived through what happened in Yugoslavia, consequences for Russia, bearing in mind the mentality of the Russian people, and not only Russian, but all other nations living in Russia, the confrontations would be much tougher and bloody than after Yugoslavia’s collapse," he said.  

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WNU Editor: The Caucasus is Russia's Achilles Heel. If the Russian Federation should collapse it will be this part of Russia that will disintegrate into civil war. 

As for the rest of Russia. There are dozens of small ethnic groups throughout the Federation, but Russian is dominant everywhere. A collapse of the central government may still result in a push for autonomy in places like Siberia and the Far East, but it will be very difficult.  

Update: Russian President Putin continues to voice what many Russians still believe ... Putin calls dissolution of USSR tragedy and ‘collapse of historical Russia’ (TASS). More here .... Putin: Breakup of Soviet Union was 'disintegration of historical Russia' (The Hill).