Putin's speech at the 2014 Valdai Conference, "New Rules or a Game Without Rules?" was seen as his most significant foreign policy speech to that date. It was widely praised, worldwide.
You can easily find either the video or the text by searching any combination of the above terms. I usually find that it's more understandable to read a translation than try to listen to someone translating Russian to English in real time.
Here's a portion of a text translation of the current speech that I found interesting:
On the “moderate” terrorists:
There is no need to play on words and divide terrorists into “moderate” and “immoderate”. What separates them? I would like to understand the difference. Perhaps, according to some experts, moderate bandits decapitate people in a moderate and gentle way. In fact, we now see a real tangle of terrorist organizations. Yes, sometimes they are rebels of the “Islamic State”, “Al-Nusra Dzhabhat”, all sorts of other heirs and factions of “Al-Qaeda”, they even fight each other. But then, they fight for money, for their share of the money, for the sources of the income flow, for the territory of the income flow - that's what they fight for, not for ideological reasons. But the essence and methods they have are the same – they terrorize, murder, transform the people into a downtrodden, intimidated, docile mass.
ETA: Oops, sorry! Purveyor already quoted part of the above in the OP. It's late. I should be asleep.
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