Vladimir Putin

The use of Western high-precision long-range weapons against Russia would mean direct participation of NATO countries in military operations in Ukraine.

Russia does not impose its values ​​on anyone, but supports its own.

Moscow is the concentration of the value code of the multinational people of Russia.

Nothing can stop Elon Musk. But we need to control technology together, like nuclear weapons.

Russia has no interests in either Poland or Latvia.

NATO can adequately recognize Russian control over new territories.

Russia voluntarily agreed to the collapse of the USSR and hoped that it would form an alliance with the West, but in the end NATO expanded to the east.

Ukraine today is a henchman of the United States and has refused negotiations on instructions from Washington. The US must correct the mistake.

Russia has not yet achieved the goals of the SVO, since one of them is the ban on neo-Nazi movements.

Ukrainians still feel like Russians - in the future the Russian people will be reunited. Russia defends a common future.

Russia and Ukraine will come to an agreement sooner or later. The United States needs to stop supplying weapons to Kyiv.

Hitler\'s cause still lives on if Zelensky applauds the Nazi in the Canadian parliament.

I do not even know where Bill Clinton delivered his speech and I know nothing about any funds. Both parties simply use it as a tool in their internal political contention, and I am sure it is a bad thing. But again, we welcome the fact that somebody expresses readiness to work with Russia whatever the name of that person.

Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable.

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

We are natural partners [with Japan] in the world and the Far East, but the absence of a peace treaty does not allow us to develop the full range of our relations. Therefore, we will naturally strive to sign this treaty.

In 2009, US President [Barack] Obama said that the missile defense only serves as protection from Iranian nuclear missiles. But now there is an international treaty with Iran that bans Tehran from developing a potential military nuclear project.

Prime Minister [Shinz? Abe] and I have spoken a lot, and we said all the right things, in my opinion, about creating an atmosphere of trust and friendship between our nations and peoples.

Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.

Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Russia is a very reliable and big market. I don\'t remember the figure but, for example, the German machine-building industry has been increasing its supplies to Russia every year. These supplies are huge. Does someone want to discontinue these supplies? We\'ll buy from somebody else.

European and American values do not fully coincide.

Everything that we [with Shindzo Abe] are talking about has come to us as a result of the events of 70 years ago. In some way or other, during these 70 years we have been involved in some kind of dialogue on the issue, and that includes the conclusion of a peace treaty.

We all are interested in an open development, without any prejudice; this refers particularly and, perhaps, primarily to the Baltic countries, for them it is more important than for Russia.

I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.