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I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.

From Vladimir Putin

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

From Vladimir Putin

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

From Vladimir Putin

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

From Vladimir Putin

I think we should not control the Internet.

From Vladimir Putin

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

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We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

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The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

From Vladimir Putin

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

From Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

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