Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Nowadays, there are plans to separate the Baltic states from the common power system of the former Soviet Union and to integrate… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
NATO and the USA wanted a complete victory over the Soviet Union. They wanted to sit on the throne in Europe alone. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Japan announced that it would not comply with this declaration [ 1956]. Later on, the Soviet Union also declared that the declaration… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves:… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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