Russian President Vladimir Putin said at Russia's showpiece investment conference Friday that the country's economy will overcome "reckless and insane" sanctions while condemning the United States for acting like "God's own messengers on planet Earth."
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Putin began his address to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum with a lengthy denunciation of countries that he contends want to weaken Russia, including the United States.
He said the US "declared victory in the Cold War and later came to think of themselves as God's own messengers on planet Earth."
Putin said trying to damage the Russian economy "didn't work."
"Russian enterprises and government authorities worked in a composed and professional manner," he said. "We're normalizing the economic situation. We stabilized the financial markets, the banking system, the trade system."
