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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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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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Thus, in view of what I have said, we could not officially hack [Hillary's Clinton mail]. It would require certain intuition and knowledge of the U.S. domestic policy peculiarities. I am not sure that even our experts from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have such intuition.
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Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.
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Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
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Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
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I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.
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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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We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.
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But if the U.S. were to leave now and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united country, that would definitely be a second mistake.
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