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Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
I am addressing you because you have conferred on me the highest post in the country.
I can only feel joy that the American people did not itself to be intimidated, and made th... (more Vladimir Putin quotes)
He is a skilled equestrian.
In 1975, he graduated from Leningrad State University.
He has two daughters, Katya and Masha.
He got married to Ludmilla Shkrebneva on July 28, 1983.... (more Vladimir Putin trivia)
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