US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Russian Prezident Vladimir Putin's actions, including in Georgia are a demonstration that he rejects the basic principles.

"I think the first thing is to try to make sure you have a good understanding of what’s actually happening. And this, to us, is very clear. Look, if you’re stepping back and looking at the moment we’re in, we have the end of an era, the post-Cold War era. We have an intense competition that’s underway to actually shape what comes next. One of the competitors is Russia and Putin’s Russia. And the actions that he’s taken, that they’ve taken, not just in the last year and a half but going back certainly to at least 2014 and arguably before that in Georgia, 2008, 2009, are a demonstration that he rejects the order as it’s been or, for that matter, the maintenance of the basic premises, the basic principles, that define the order – territorial sovereignty, independence," Blinken said during a conversation at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy Moderated by Ambassador David Satterfield.