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" Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests. "
Sergei Lavrov
Interests
Right
Washington
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" When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures? "
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" The jihadists come from many European countries, Russia included, and some even from the United States; hundreds of them - if you take Europe, Russia and the U.S. - are fighting in the ranks of extremist groups. "
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" There's no room for petty grievances in politics. "
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" We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does. "
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" Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country. "
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" The struggle against terrorists in the territory of Syria should be structured in cooperation with the Syrian government, which clearly stated its readiness to join it. "
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" Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries. "
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" We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population. "
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