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" At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warrant issued by court. That's more or less the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism. "

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" China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China's largest investment funds. "

Vladimir Putin

Good

China

Tools

" The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. "

" If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country. "

" We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. "

" I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president. "

" One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk. "

" I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. "

Vladimir Putin

American

Choice

" No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law. "

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

" The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya. "

" The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. "

" If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own. "

" Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean. "

" The Russian parliament has condemned the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. "

" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here. "

" Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. "

" No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. "

" The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts. "

" Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. "

" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "

" Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. "

" You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to prevent or minimize collateral casualties. It is extremely important. "

" Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. "

" We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. "

" In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue. "

Vladimir Putin

World

Will

" The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature. "

" Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world. "

" In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. "

" The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people. "