The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
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Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
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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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Bike is the most democratic transport vehicle. Bike is the most daring, challenging as it gives its owner the tempting feeling of freedom, that is why one can say without any exaggeration, bike is a symbol of freedom.
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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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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
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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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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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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
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I insist that people – wherever they live – have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.
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Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
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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.
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I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world.
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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.
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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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