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Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.


Vladimir Lenin

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VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern lite...
VLADIMIR PUTIN One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a ce...
VLADIMIR PUTIN I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
VLADIMIR PUTIN The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
VLADIMIR PUTIN He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to pr...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Of the not very many ways known of shedding one's body, falling, falling, falling is the supreme met...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody el...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain nat...
VLADIMIR PUTIN The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '9...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
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