Putin Lambasts The West And Declares That The Era Of The Unipolar World Has Come To An End.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday the last day of the age of "unipolarity," in a speech delivered at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which lambasted Western countries.
"When they won the Cold War, the US declared themselves God's own representatives on earth," Putin told the audience. The much-hyped speech was delayed by more than 90 minutes because of distributed denial of service attacks on its systems. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists in an impromptu conference call that the speech was postponed due to DDoS attacks on its systems.
It's not clear who perpetrated the attack. Ukrainian IT Army, a hacker collective, called the St. Petersburg Forum as a target earlier this week on Twitter.
Putin's address at an annual conference ...