Vladimir Putin

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows us to think there's something objectively bringing us together in difficult times, and I think - I believe - it has to do with geopolitical interests and also has a moral component.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her - with the goal of saving him.