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I think Russia has already turned the toughest pages in its history. We're only moving forward now, only get stronger.
First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.
We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.
Under the international agreements, the Russian peacekeepers are committed to protect the population of South Ossetia.
Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.
We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian.
Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.
Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.
The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.
However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.
Russia should be competitive, be able to protect its own interests and influence the processes that are important to it.
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a certain level of risk.
Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.
Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.
Strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a company. Let us not forget that BP has a stake in Rosneft and BP is a British company.
By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.
Berlusconi is being tried because he lives with women. If he was homosexual, no one would have lifted a finger against him.
I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.
We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.
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.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
I would like to inform you with great satisfaction of a new step forward on establishing partnership between Russia and Japan
The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.
As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
We have wide-ranging joint projects in the nuclear energy sphere, logistics, machine building and trade as a whole [with China].
At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.
Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.
Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken.
I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.
Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a very bad policy.
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.
If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.
After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.
Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just.
We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.
At the request of my Japanese colleagues, in 2000 we revisited the possibility of signing a peace treaty based on the 1956 agreement.
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.
We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.
President Obama and I can meet, shake hands and discuss current issues, we - and I am personally - are always ready for such contacts.
Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.
The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.