China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.
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Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.
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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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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
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Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
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Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state – a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
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Being gay is not a crime.
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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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The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
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I’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
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I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.
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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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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
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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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One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.
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My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
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