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" Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. "
Vladimir Putin
Illusion
Nobody
Never
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" Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. "
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" Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. "
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" Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. "
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" Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. "
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" I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice. "
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" It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis. "
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" We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. "
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" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "
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" I think we should not control the Internet. "
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" I swim almost every day, a thousand meters. "
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" In almost any country, probably in Russia in particular, it's fashionable to criticise people in power. If you come out in support of someone like me, you're going to be accused of trying to ingratiate yourself. "
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" The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. "
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" 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. "
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" The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. "
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" I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors. "
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" As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
Vladimir Putin
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" The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects. "
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Russia
India
" I love soccer. "
Vladimir Putin
Love
Soccer
I Love
" Libya is divided into tribes and clans. "
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" NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia. "
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" We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal. "
Vladimir Putin
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Blessings
God
" In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased. "
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" In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated. "
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" At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate. "
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" I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins. "
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" What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master. "
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Matter
World
" 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. "
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" Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. "
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