“People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves.”

—  Vladimir Putin

MUNICH, February 10, 2007. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/02/a50c8a12-b6a8-44ad-92dd-58183e78a032.html
2006- 2010

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