Democracy Quote by Vladimir Putin

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic…

— Vladimir Putin

I would like to see Russia develop as democratically as possible. But when we judge Russia we must also consider where the country is…

— Angela Merkel

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…

— Vladimir Putin

Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the…

— Vladimir Putin

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy…

— Garry Kasparov

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

— Marc Almond

We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy…

— Timothy D. Snyder

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same.…

— Tom Robbins

To describe Russian politics as "managed democracy" - and that's sometimes hard for outsiders to understand, because a lot of the forms of democracy…

— Anne Applebaum

I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're…

— Masha Gessen

Russia, as well as any other country, does not need dictators, but it needs equitable principles of organizing the state and society: just, effective,…

— Vladimir Putin