Putin says Russia condemned Baltic deal long ago

President Vladimir Putin, responding to growing calls for Russia to renounce the secret Soviet-Nazi pact that consigned the Baltic republics to Soviet rule, said Moscow condemned the deal long ago.

In a German TV interview published today by the Kremlin press service, Putin said the Soviet-era legislature, the Supreme Soviet, had issued a resolution in 1989 that criticised the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact as “a personal decision by (Soviet leader Josef) Stalin that contradicted the interests of the Soviet people”.