Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
VLADIMIR PUTINChess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
VLADIMIR PUTINWhoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.
VLADIMIR PUTINI’m eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they’ve trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
VLADIMIR PUTINWhat is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
VLADIMIR PUTINf you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.
VLADIMIR PUTINWe’re no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussia 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.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
VLADIMIR PUTINI would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past.
VLADIMIR PUTINPrisons 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.
VLADIMIR PUTINDemocracy is an internal subject of the developing society.
VLADIMIR PUTINNo one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
VLADIMIR PUTINIf there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority.
VLADIMIR PUTINDespite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
VLADIMIR PUTINI think happiness is love.
VLADIMIR PUTINI think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.
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