Russian leader Vladimir Putin has warned that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic is deepening economic inequality worldwide, and bringing about conditions that could send the world spiralling into a “dark anti-Utopia.” Speaking via video link to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Mr Putin warned that the global situation was as dangerous as it had been in the days before World War II. “I strongly hope that such ‘hot’ global conflict is impossible now,” he said. “It would mean the end of civilisation ”.
Mr Putin said that the economic depression would give rise to populist leaders who would inevitably cause international conflict.“There is a real danger that we will face a downturn in global development," he said, "fraught with.