Putin has told Russian TV that Western Europe is facing a serious migration crisis, insisting that many migrants and their children are failing to assimilate. “The number of people who have arrived from these countries has become so large that the state is no longer capable of assimilating them. There simply aren’t enough resources.” He accused Western European governments of undermining their own cultural traditions while expecting migrants to adopt them. “How can you introduce European traditions and customs into these communities when Europeans themselves are dismantling their own traditions and customs?” Putin contrasted the situation with Russia, describing it as a historically multinational and multireligious state. “Representatives of all cultures and different religions live in Russia, Christians, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists. They have no other homeland.” “That's an enormous difference.”