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I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

I think the American people should express their preferences, and we'll accept their choice.

Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.'

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

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

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.

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