Politics

“Relations between Moscow and Kyiv deteriorated after the coup in Ukraine, the return of the Crimea to Russia, and the beginning of the conflict in the Donbas.”

“In terms of volume, the Chinese economy has already become larger than the U.S. economy.”

“There is an old joke... Maybe some don’t know it, it will be interesting. It goes like this. Question: ‘How do you relax?’ Answer: ‘I don’t get tense.” The same goes for tensions in international affairs. We don’t create tensions for anybody; we don’t create any problems.”

“We are accused of something, and ‘with a high degree of probability,’ as they say; we did this or that, intervened here, did something there. At the same time, no one considers it necessary to provide any evidence.”

"Crimea is ours… And why ours? Not because we came and grabbed something… What is democracy? A government of the people. And how is a government of the people validated? Through referendums, elections and so on. People in Crimea turned out for a referendum and voted… to be independent and, as a next step,… to be a part of the Russian Federation… We proceed from the will of the people living in this territory.”

"US President [Donald Trump] did not come up with any direct accusations [against Putin in an interview with CBS News]," he noted. "Moreover, there can be no substantiated accusations against the Russian president."

“People rallied, with bloodshot eyes, pronounced these words, looking me in the eye: ‘Death to the enemy, death to Russia, death to you’.”

“Latvia election result sparks EU crisis warning as pro-Russia party sweeps to success”

“Several dozen people gathered on Friday in the center of the capital of Ingushetia, Magas; the situation in the city is calm, RIA Novosti’s correspondent reports.”

"Oleg Sentsov has stopped his hunger strike, giving a written statement on that. He has also agreed to start eating.”

Some media outlets are “pushing through a theory that Mr. Skripal is some sort of a rights activist. He’s plainly a spy. A traitor to his homeland. There’s such a thing – being a traitor to the homeland. He is one … Imagine, if there’s a person in your country who betrayed it. How would you treat him? He’s plainly scum.”

“The Ukrainian authorities want to completely seize the Ukrainian Church, to outlaw it, and for this purpose various kinds of bills are being created. For example, there is such a bill that says the Ukrainian Orthodox Church should be renamed ‘the Russian Church in Ukraine’.”