I think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.
VLADIMIR PUTINI think the American people should express their preferences, and we’ll accept their choice.
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.
VLADIMIR PUTINThe 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.
VLADIMIR PUTINYou must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.
VLADIMIR PUTINEverything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
VLADIMIR PUTINWhat is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.
VLADIMIR PUTINI think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart.
VLADIMIR PUTINThe Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
VLADIMIR PUTINRussia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
VLADIMIR PUTINI am not prejudiced in any way.
VLADIMIR PUTINChess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
VLADIMIR PUTINBetween major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
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 PUTINI’m convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
VLADIMIR PUTINWe shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
VLADIMIR PUTINThe growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.
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