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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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I stress that we unambiguously support strengthening the non-proliferation regime, without any exceptions, on the basis of international law.
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Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.
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The Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] and I will negotiate proceeding from our national interests: the interests of Russia and the interests of Japan. We should find a compromise.
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I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
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Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.
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We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].
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Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
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Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
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I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.
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The level of our political trust [with China] is also very high. We have similar positions on major international issues or even, as diplomats say, our views are identical. We often have shared positions on key issues of the modern international agenda.
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If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.
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It is only up to the Syrian people living in Syria to determine who, how and based on what principles should rule their country, and any external advice would be absolutely inappropriate, harmful and against international law.
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Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.
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After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.
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Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.
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If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!
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As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.
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The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.
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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.
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