Federation Quote by Vladimir Putin
“The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.”
“The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.”
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