President Putin has urged creation of a new sense of patriotism replace ideologically driven USSR.
Putin -- who has made restoring Russia s great-power status a chief aim of his rule -- said the country had forgotten to construct a sense of national pride and lashed out at opponents who "pour shit" over its name.
"Patriotism is not just a nice word. Patriotism is above all serving the motherland, the country, Russia, the people," he said in a speech to a meeting on fostering nationalism,
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