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You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
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We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.
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Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.
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Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
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Russia should be competitive, be able to protect its own interests and influence the processes that are important to it.
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Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.
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I have never changed. I feel as young as I always did and remain close friends with Gerhard Schröder.
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Radicals can be found in any environment.
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I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.
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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.
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I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.
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Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic.
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Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.
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How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.
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We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.
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The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.
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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'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
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The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.
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The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.
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