"My feeling is that anti-Russian sentiment has been fuelled intentionally to create a moral and political situation conducive to deploying the [missile defense] systems," Putin said at his final annual Kremlin news conference.
Washington wants to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the neighboring Czech Republic, purportedly to counter a missile threat from Iran and other "rogue" states. Russia has fiercely opposed the plans.
"If this happens, the level of security in Europe will be reduced," Putin said.
The problem with inferior meat supplies from Poland to Russia is a problem between Russia and Europe rather than between the two countries, Putin said.
According to Putin, agriculture in Eastern Europe is subsidized from European financial sources and this produce is dumped onto the Russian market, thus suppressing the development of domestic agriculture.
Relations between Russia and Poland deteriorated after Moscow imposed an embargo on Polish meat in November 2005 claiming that meat from third countries was being imported under the cover of Polish produce. Russia resumed meat imports in December 2007.
Russia does not intend to limit energy deliveries to Europe, including Poland, but is set to diversify supply routes, the Russian president said.
"We have no plans to limit anything in the future, but we are proceeding from the need to diversify energy supplies to new consumers. What is wrong with that? What's anti-Polish about that?" Putin said.
