Putin calls for a project to promote ‘traditional Russian values’ overseas

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Upper House of the Russian Parliament (Gavriil Grigorov/AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the government to develop a programme for overseas promotion of “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”, a theme that the Kremlin has increasingly sounded in recent years.

In an order published on the Kremlin website, Putin instructed officials responsible for national projects to allot an unspecified amount of money for a programme called “Russia in the World”.