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Vladimir Putin’s remarks focus on big challenges like structural reform, corruption, and terrorism. He notes that leaders must be clear when fighting graft and that unresolved issues linger in defense planning. The quotes underline the urgency of addressing these problems both inside and beyond borders.

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Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

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To pay more is the easy way. In fact, the solution possibilities to the problem are many.

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If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I…

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Equipping one side of an ethnic conflict and then prodding it to resolve its ethnic problems by force of arms is a…

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The Russians have turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world nowadays. Is that not a problem?

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The problem of sexual minorities in Russia has been deliberately made controversial in Russia. There is no such problem in Russia.

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Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues,…

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I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor…

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The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish…

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I believe a healthy lifestyle is an extremely important thing which underpins solution to numerous important problems, including the health of the…

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a grave social situation in Russia; our social protection system was destroyed; numerous problems…

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It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into…

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We are ready to meet [with Donald Trump] at any time, this is no problem for us, but I believe we should…

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We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to…

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Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia…

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You made these things up yourselves and now scare yourselves with them and even use them to plan your prospective policies. These…

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The Far East is of particular significance for us in terms of this region's priority development. Over the last few years, let…

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It is well known that homosexuality is a criminal offense in the United States, in four US states. If it is good…

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Some Western politicians are already threatening us with not just sanctions, but also the prospect of increasingly serious problems on the domestic…

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I have always tried to sense the mood of the people, their needs, their attitude toward ways to solve problems, their priorities.…

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I always had a problem when someone was trying to place sport in social and political context. Sport is a separate and…

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In the area of international security, taking into account that the United States and Russia are the largest nuclear powers: We are…

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There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward…

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The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course,…

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I would like to say, you know, that, unfortunately, we have many unresolved problems. But a great number of people in Russia…

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The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they…

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The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.

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We believe we have no territorial problems at all. It is only Japan that believes it has territorial problems with Russia. We…

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We were also going to develop relations with the current administration [of Barack Obama], but somehow they did not work out well…

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The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this…

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Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there…

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There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the…

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Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before…

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No doubt, the United States and the American people are a gear country and a great people. Nobody disputes this, but talking…

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We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face…

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This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you…

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After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves:…

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How long has it taken the democratic process to develop in the United States? Since it was founded. So, do you think…

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At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror…

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I think that all countries of the region should join their efforts in the fight against a common threat - terrorism in…

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We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as…

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and…

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal…

Europeans are really dying out!

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our…

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this.…

Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends,…

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is…

The sanctions may be imposed only by the decision of the UN Security Council. A unilateral imposition of sanctions is a violation of international…

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Anyhow, we obviously understand that, being a United States' ally and having a special relationship with it, the UK in its relations with Russian…