Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
VLADIMIR PUTINDemocracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
More Vladimir Putin Quotes
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My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust.
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The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
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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.
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Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
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The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
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Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history.
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Prisons where people can’t even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don’t think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.
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What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
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I am not prejudiced in any way.
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I’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the major geopolitical disaster of the century.
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The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.
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We’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
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Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
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