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.
VLADIMIR PUTINSuperpower’ is something which we used during the cold war time.
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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
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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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Russia 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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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the major geopolitical disaster of the century.
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Life is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
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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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There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
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My personal position is that society must keep children safe.
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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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Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
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Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
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No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
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The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.
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A considerable share of the world’s population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
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Russian 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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