Calm Quote by Garry Kasparov

The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally also de…

— Garry Kasparov

Maybe Putin wanted to fire Medvedev , but how is he supposed to do that after my film?

— Alexei Navalny

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

— Alexei Navalny

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by bluffing. There…

— Garry Kasparov

Putin needs strong moves to keep the country as one. There is some criticism that he is centralizing power, but in Russia, if you…

— Anatoly Karpov

Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.

— Ksenia Sobchak

I think that Medvedev and Putin are in on it together. One is playing the good cop and the other the bad cop.

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now.…

— Ilya Ponomarev

With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it.

— Bernie Ecclestone

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

— Ron Johnson

Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by…

— Masha Gessen

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky