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Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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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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The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
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America is a powerful country and it has earned the right that nobody from the outside can interfere with it or comment on it. We will work with any administration, with any president who will win the support of the American people, if of course they are ready to cooperate with Russia.
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Europe and the United States are not the whole world.
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Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.
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