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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski - Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the Ukrainian authorities should start talks on questions of the state system in the southeast of the country.

“Substantive, meaningful talks should be immediately launched not on technical questions but questions of political organization of society and the state system in southeast Ukraine with the purpose of unconditionally guaranteeing the lawful interests of people who live there,” he said in an interview with Voskresnoye Vremya (Sunday Time) on Channel 1.