“There is no one to talk to since Mahatma Gandhi died.”

— Vladimir Putin

После смерти Махатмы Ганди поговорить не с кем. <br class="br">Responding to a question "Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called you a 'pure democrat'. Do you consider yourself such?" June 4, 2007, http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/06/04/2149_type82916_132716.shtml <br class="br">2006- 2010

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