France's Hollande urges Putin to look ahead, not back, over Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 05 Dec 2014

ASTANA (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday to look to the future rather than the past to help ease tension over the Ukraine crisis.

In a policy speech on Thursday, Putin evoked the lessons of history to shift the blame for many of Russia's problems on to the West, accusing "enemies of yesterday" of trying to bring a new Iron Curtain down around Russia.

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