En réponse à un journaliste occidental qui l'interrogeait sur les exactions russes en Tchétchénie lors d'une conférence de presse en novembre 2002. 
Sur la Tchétchénie
                                    
Vladimir Poutine citations célèbres
                                        
                                        Российские самолёты наносят и будут наносить удары в Чечне исключительно по базам террористов, и это будет продолжаться, где бы террористы ни находились. …Мы будем преследовать террористов везде. В аэропорту — в аэропорту. Значит, вы уж меня извините, в туалете поймаем, мы и в сортире их замочим, в конце концов. Всё, вопрос закрыт окончательно. 
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Déclaration faite alors qu'il était premier ministre par intérim. 
Sur la Tchétchénie
                                    
                                        
                                        Déclaration faite à Munich devant la Conférence sur la sécurité. 
Sur l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe
                                    
Sur la Crimée
Vladimir Poutine Citations
                                        
                                        À propos des Femen qui ont manifesté devant lui. 
Sur l'effondrement moral en Occident
                                    
“La plupart des pays Euro-Atlantistes renient leurs principes moraux.”
Sur l’effondrement moral en Occident
                                        
                                        Applaudissements 
Sur la Crimée
                                    
“Dans 20 ans, la France deviendra la colonie de ses anciennes colonies.”
                                        
                                        Phrase attribuée à Poutine par Marine Le Pen.  Selon https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2011/08/17/45488-77-dokazatelstv-teoriii-breyvika Anders Breivik, Poutine aurait parlé de l'Europe de l'Ouest en général et non pas seulement de la France : « L'Europe occidentale est en marche vers la situation où elle deviendra la colonie de ses anciennes colonies. » 
Sur l'immigration en France et en Europe de l'Ouest
                                    
“Les frontières de la Russie ne se terminent nulle part.”
                                        
                                        Plaisanterie faite à la cérémonie de remise de prix de la Société russe de géographie, au Palais d'État du Kremlin, le 24 novembre 2016. 
Sur les frontières de la Russie
                                    
“Saakachvili, je vais le faire pendre par les couilles.”
                                        
                                        Le 12 août 2008, au cours d'une rencontre avec le président français Nicolas Sarkozy venu négocier à Moscou un cessez-le-feu en Géorgie, dirigée par le président Mikheïl Saakachvili. 
Sur le conflit russo-géorgien d'août 2008
                                    
Vladimir Poutine: Citations en anglais
                                        
                                        July 17, 2006, during the St. Petersburg Group of Eight summit Putin said in reply to George W. Bush, who said he hopes Russia will follow Iraq in turning to democracy 
 http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2006/07/bush_says_just_.html  http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/15/russia.g8/index.html 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                         interview with TF-1 Television Channel (France) http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/speeches/2006/07/12/1829_type82916_108548.shtml, taken on July 12, 2006 
2006- 2010
                                    
“Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.”
                                        
                                         http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&p=29.01.2008&rt=124 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                         http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/01/18/0726_type82914type82916_117126.shtml 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                         (17 April 2014) http://on.rt.com/vqds8o 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        Response to John McCain's tweet "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you."  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8958294/Vladimir-Putin-calls-John-McCain-nuts-in-outspoken-attack.html 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        In response to those who called Putin to enter talks with Chechen separatists after the Beslan school hostage crisis, in September 2004 
[Putin rejects "child-killer talks", BBC News, 2004-09-07, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3633668.stm, 2006-07-07] 
2000 - 2005
                                    
When asked in June 2007 at the interview with G8 journalists about main achievements of his presidency http://web.archive.org/web/20070607221025/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/06/04/2149_type82916_132772.shtml.
                                        
                                         News conference http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,810093,00.html with then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, October 2002. 
2000 - 2005
                                    
                                        
                                            Kremlin RU  http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/05/10/1823_type70029type82912_105566.shtml  (10 May 2006) 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                        During his speech at the Valdai forum in 2013 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                          Kremlin RU http://web.archive.org/web/20061013001158/http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/06/27/2040_type82912type82913type82914_107818.shtml  (27 June 2006) 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                        Regarding a statement by Francois Hollande of "the need for Assad to leave". (June 1, 2012) http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-01/hollande-clashes-with-putin-over-ouster-of-syria-s-assad 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        Crimea address (18 March 2014)  http://rt.com/news/putin-address-ten-quotes-778/ 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        When Larry King asked that Robert Gates is wrong or right about Russia that democracy has disappeared and the government being run by the security services. (February 2010)  http://en.rian.ru/interview/20101202/161586625.html 
2006- 2010
                                    
“In America, torture was legalized, do you believe it?”
                                        
                                          RT news Putin Press conf http://rt.com/news/215471-putin-press-conference-updates/ (18 December 18, 2014) 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        2006- 2010 
Source:  Annual Address to the Federal Assembly http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2006/05/10/1823_type70029type82912_105566.shtml, (10 May 2006)
                                    
                                        
                                        Meeting of the Valdai Club, 2016-10-27. 
 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53151 () http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53151 
On Ukraine
                                    
                                        
                                        Понятно, что надо больше платить, это самый простой вариант, не всегда возможный,(но простой) но способов решения проблемы много 
On human capital flight, in address to Committee for Education, Science and Technology (26 October 2004). 
2000 - 2005
                                    
6 December 2014, Владимир Путин @ facebook. com
                                        
                                         Interview http://web.archive.org/web/20130614041959/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oIF-ggK5U (2013). 
2011 - 2015
                                    
“For the preservation of the majestic Russia!”
                                        
                                         (2013) http://tvrain.ru/articles/putin_poluchil_premiju_vsemirnogo_russkogo_sobora_za_sohranenie_derzhavnoj_rossii-355720/ 
2011 - 2015
                                    
“We are guided by interests rather than feelings in dealing with our partners.”
                                        
                                        10 December 2014 http://itar-tass.com/en/economy/766135, "Russia interested in US economy’s ability to resist current crisis — Russian PM" 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                         http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/02/01/1309_type82915_117609.shtml 
2006- 2010
                                    
                                        
                                        2015-06-06, Interview to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.  http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/49629 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.  Kremlin, RU, http://archive.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2005/05/05/2355_type82912type82916_87597.shtml (May 2005) 
2000 - 2005
                                    
                                        
                                        On not wanting to deal with the US re: Edward Snowden, 25 June 2013  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/25/edward-snowden-moscow-vladimir-putin. guardian.co.uk 
2011 - 2015
                                    
                                        
                                        In response to a journalist who asked about Russian abuses in Chechnya during a press conference in November 2002  Newsbusters http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/12/30/ouch-putin-answer-about-terrorism-stuns-press-conference-silence#ixzz2Wxbq9sOU 
2000 - 2005
                                    
                                        
                                        In Enniskillen, 18 June 2013,  g8-summit-politics-live-blog http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/jun/18/g8-summit-politics-live-blog, guardian.co.uk 
2011 - 2015