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We cannot decide for the American people.

Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there [in Crimea], but it was to ensure people's safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will. We did that. But it would not have been possible without the Crimeans' own strong resolution.
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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
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[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.
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