Christian Quote by Ilya Ponomarev

Russia can fall apart. It's not because of the oil prices ... It's because what sticks a country together is a common interest of…

— Ilya Ponomarev

From the point of view of legislation of the Constitution, my mandate has been given by my constituency. So it's only my constituency that…

— Ilya Ponomarev

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

Putin is not a strategist at all. He has brilliant tactics, but he is a very bad strategist overall. And I think he is…

— Ilya Ponomarev

I think that we are right now - the society - is living in the Facebook era and the political system is still in…

— Ilya Ponomarev

Putin is just maneuvering. He wants to be respected. He wants to be an important player in global politics. He wants people to negotiate…

— Ilya Ponomarev

With Tatars, the situation is a little bit more complex. They are geographically very isolated so they need the rest of Russia. When they…

— Ilya Ponomarev

Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start to ask…

— Ilya Ponomarev

In the world of today, I think that entrepreneurs are the new emerging ruling class - I identify it as the startup class. That's…

— Ilya Ponomarev

My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of large government…

— Ilya Ponomarev

I think that it's inevitable if society will be run by old-timers who are still in the paradigm of the past, so I think…

— Ilya Ponomarev

We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security for peaceful…

— Ilya Ponomarev