But India is also clearly looking for a way to ensure its role of a major and notable international player. In that respect, good ties with Russia could serve well.


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I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we us...
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If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Thieves must sit in prison.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Stalin is the most popular figure in all of Russia.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The goal of socialism is communism.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...
VLADIMIR LENIN
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
VLADIMIR LENIN
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, th...
VLADIMIR LENIN
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collect...
VLADIMIR LENIN
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
VLADIMIR LENIN
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
VLADIMIR LENIN
The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
VLADIMIR LENIN
Perfection itself is imperfection.
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especiall...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his...
VLADIMIR LENIN
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of m...
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY
Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY