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I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

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.